I am seeing these two different bottlings offered at about the same price. A google search didn’t give me any explanation of the difference between the two. Anybody know or better yet tasted both?
Soave Classico is a DOC right? I’m guessing the latter is from vineyards outside of the Classico boundary or maybe something they produce to sell locally but don’t advertise? Soave DOC wines can be bottled and sold in December of the same year.
one is for On Premise and the other is for Retail, same wine.
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I am not familiar with the term “On Premise” WRT wine. Why would a U.S. retailer (Saratoga) offer both of them in the 2023 vintage. The 2023 Classico is listed at a slightly lower price.
Thanks.
On Premise = restaurants, hotels, bars, anywhere where the product is intended to be consumed on the premises. They are a different price and the rep sold them both items when they weren’t supposed to, simple.
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I believe Satatoga is one of those stores that just lists everything in a distributors catalog. Could this be the reason?
its possible they pulled straight from SevenFifty given the errors like listing Tornatore Etna Rosso as NV, but there is a bunch of stuff not on listed that would be on the list had they done that
From a google search. I believe this is correct, similar to Chianti and Chianti Classico.
“Soave” refers to a white wine from the Soave region of Italy, while “Soave Classico” specifically indicates a Soave wine produced in the historic, hillside vineyards considered the prime growing area within the Soave region, typically producing wines with more complexity and character compared to standard Soave which may come from flatter land; essentially, “Classico” signifies a higher quality designation within the Soave category due to its unique terroir and older, traditional vineyards…"
I’m going with the ITB guy who has access to SevenFifty. Though, I still don’t quite understand the rationale for the label difference in this case.
a frequent complaint of on premise operators is that they don’t want wine that can be purchased at Retail
on their lists because of the perception, it’s a silly argument but a pervasive one in the industry, legally the TTB would not allow two wines that are the same with different labels, so they had to make the adjustment in the label verbiage, but they are the same wines
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What, the perception that they are gouging you? 
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I agree. They could well be wines from different sources, the Classico being superior.
I drink a lot of Soave, all I think is from Soave Classico. I am not a fan of Pieropan though. I love Inama and Sauvia across all their bottlings. At the top though is Sandro di Bruno. Very impressive wines.
Th cynic in me thinks it’s to prevent a quick google search to check prices and the subsequent sticker-shock.
As I explained above, they’re not.
So we have two different and opposing explanations, one that it is the same wine with two different labels, intended for two different markets, the other that Soave and Soave Classico are two different demoninations of wiine. Has anyone asked Pieropan?
I work for them, so I think I may be correct.
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Josh, I appreciate you and others providing your ITB expertise to answer my question. Early on in my confusion yesterday, I actually sent an email to Pieropan in Italy with this question. It will be interesting to see if and how they answer.
Thanks again.
Josh. I believe you. It seems like a strange thing to do. I can’t imagine any producer in Chianti Classico would do it.
That being said it wouldn’t be the first time we have gotten conflicting information about our brands, I called my buddy who managed that piece of the business and I relayed what he’s been told.