Giuseppe Quintarelli - Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2017 (750ml)
Price: $149.99
| Producer | Giuseppe Quintarelli |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Veneto |
| Varietal | Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella |
| Vintage | 2017 |
| Sku | 200074 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Giuseppe Quintarelli Description
Producing a bottle of Quintarelli is no simple task. After harvest, while half of the fruit—in this case, a diverse blend made up mainly of Corvina, Corvinone, and Rondinella—is crushed and fermented like a traditional red wine, the remaining grapes are set to dry for two months in a process known as appassimento. After the two lots are blended, the wine is then passed over the pressed skins from the family’s Amarone, a powerful wine made entirely from dried grapes. During this ripasso, the sugars left over in the Amarone pomace set off a small secondary fermentation, slightly boosting alcohol content and, crucially, contributing additional texture and rich, complex flavors. Only after all this has taken place is the wine racked to massive Slavonian oak botti, where it rests for no fewer than seven years before bottling.
And now here it is: the fruit of all that labor, a product of local tradition and clever innovation perfected over many decades by the Quintarelli family.
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