Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018 CS20230713 In magnum for celebrations

In magnum for celebrations

It's a complex

Head winemaker Caroline Gon has been defining this estate's profile for over a dozen years

followed by 10 days of maceration

Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018 CS20230713 In magnum for celebrationsAlmost 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