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Recioto della Valpolicella
Grape varieties: Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella, Croatina.
Harvest: manual harvest with a careful grape selection in September. Grapes are placed in wooden crates and exposed to the cold winter breezes to dry naturally, until December. 40% of their original weight is lost during this time.
Vinification: soft pressing, slow fermentation and maceration at low winter temperature followed by stabilization in stainless steel tanks.
Refinement: casks and then in bottle.
Colour: deep ruby red.
Bouquet: the perfume is intense and offers spicy and ripe fruit scents with floral notes of wild rose, violets and vanilla.
Taste: full and well-rounded taste, delicately sweet and velvety.
Food pairings: pastries, dry cookies, chocolate or herb cheese.
Serving temperature: 14-16°C., 57-61°F.
Bottle/cork: 500 ml. Natural cork.
The Recioto della Valpolicella D.O.C.G. Classico Monego is obtained from Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella and Croatina.
In September the perfectly ripe grapes are manually harvested. After careful selection only the best ones are placed in small wooden trays and left to dry until December. A natural drying process, called appassimento, takes place at low winter temperatures. A soft pressing and slow fermentation follow. Recioto shares the Amarone grape drying process, but it differs in the fermentation that is stopped before all sugar becomes alcohol.
It is a sweet wine, with a deep red ruby colour.
The perfume is intense and offers spicy and ripe fruit scents, with floral notes of wild rose, violet and vanilla.
It is a wine to drink with meditation, that goes well with pastries, dry cookies, chocolate or cheeses with a very intense flavor, especially blue-veined.
Serve the wine in tight cup glasses.
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