Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018 Esthers and bottles them separately because

and bottles them separately because she believes the differences matter

Thanks to the forestry commission

the house sources exclusively from the Grand Cru villages of Mesnil and Oger

From the importer: A deeply aromatic agave spirit with highly visible ‘legs’ that are left on the inside of a sipping glass when tasting the mezcal

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Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018 Esthers and bottles them separately becauseAlmost 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