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Giuseppe Quintarelli Veneto Valpolicella

Giuseppe Quintarelli

Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2017

Red still

  • Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2017
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Giuseppe Quintarelli Veneto Valpolicella
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Denomination Valpolicella DOC
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 15.0% by volume
Area Veneto (Italy)
Grape varieties Corvina, Molinara, Rondinella
Aging 6 years in large Slavonian oak casks.
Year 2017
Product name Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2017
Color Medium garnet.
Perfume Hints of cedar, graphite, and wood smoke, then with more defined hints of fruit, especially cherry and ripe raspberry.
Taste This dry, medium-bodied wine shows first notes of red fruit in the form of those cherries and raspberries perceived on the nose. This is followed by the aroma of plums enveloped by aromas of wild herbs and oak with a note of minerality that is persistent through the long finish.
Region Veneto
Country Italy
Other years 2018
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Description

A medium garnet wine with notes of cedar, wood smoke, and graphite along with cherry and ripe raspberry on the nose. The palate is dry and medium-bodied, with notes of cherries, raspberries, plums, wild herbs and oak.

Awards

  • 2017

    94

    /100

    James Suckling is an influential American wine critic and journalist who worked at Wine Spectator for 30 years. He left the magazine in 2010 to start his own website and guidebook (JamesSuckling.com). He specialises in Italian and Bordeaux wines.

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Profumo

Perfume

Hints of cedar, graphite, and wood smoke, then with more defined hints of fruit, especially cherry and ripe raspberry.

Colore

Color

Medium garnet.

Gusto

Taste

This dry, medium-bodied wine shows first notes of red fruit in the form of those cherries and raspberries perceived on the nose. This is followed by the aroma of plums enveloped by aromas of wild herbs and oak with a note of minerality that is persistent through the long finish.

Serve at:

18 - 20 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Full Bodied and Very Aged Red Wines

Pairings

Meat
Cheese
Matured cheese
Pork

Producer
Giuseppe Quintarelli
From this winery
  • Start up year: 1900
  • Bottles produced: 60.000
  • Hectares: 10
The company is located in the foothills of Negrar approximately 350 meters above sea level. The landscape is typical of Valpolicella with its vineyards, olive groves and cherry trees, an air almost of another era, a rurality that was in danger of being lost, but thanks to people like 'El Bepi' it has been preserved. His grandson Francesco said that the wines are still made the way his grandfather made them by ageing and maturing them slowly for eight years in large wooden barrels and in bottles. Read more
Production area: Veneto
Veneto
Giuseppe Quintarelli

Name Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2017
Type Red still
Denomination Valpolicella DOC
Vintage 2017
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 15.0% by volume
Grape varieties Corvina, Molinara, Rondinella
Country Italy
Region Veneto
Vendor Giuseppe Quintarelli
Aging 6 years in large Slavonian oak casks.
Allergens Contains sulphites