Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018 Esthers The Añejo Suave rests 20

The Añejo Suave rests 20 months in ex-bourbon barrels

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Use it as a functional substitute or addition to dry vermouth or dry sherry to add new depth to cocktails

Crisp and crystalline chardonnay from old vines in the village of Vertus

and bottles them separately because she believes the differences matter

Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018 Esthers The Añejo Suave rests 20Almost nobody makes a Valpolicella like this: seven years in large Slavonian oak casks before release, longer than most estates age their Amarone. The Quintarelli family builds it from roughly 55% Corvina and Corvinone, 30% Rondinella and 15% of Cabernet Sauvignon, Nebbiolo, Croatina and Sangiovese, then re passes the young wine over the drained Amarone skins, the ripasso method, so the cellar's own yeasts start a second fermentation and the wine