Quintarelli Rosso del Bepi 2005 (1.5L)

Type: Red Wine      Volume: 1500ml

Winery: Quintarelli

Country: Italy     Region: Veneto

District: Valpolicella

Grapes Varieties: 55% Corvina and Corvinone,30% Rondinella,15% Cabernet Sauvignon,Nebbiolo,Croatina,Sangiovese

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Alcohol: 15% abv     Packing: Original Carton of 6 bottles

Ratings and Tasting Notes:

(RP=95) The 2005 Rosso del Bepi is made with the same blend of grapes found in the Valpolicella Superiore. Only in the case of this wine, the entire mass of fruit sees a four-month appassimento cycle. The wine is aged in large oak casks for eight years. A severe hail storm in 2005 reduced yields. The fruit was good in that vintage, but not good enough to become Amarone. All that potential got locked into this wine instead. Despite its age, the Rosso del Bepi offers surprising freshness and crispness with delineated tones of dried cherry and pressed rose. This wine has more decades of cellar aging locked within.