Giuseppe Quintarelli, Recioto della Valpolicella Classico 2011 750ML sale light toast

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Its opaque plum/garnet color is accompanied by a gorgeous bouquet of smoke

and baking aromas interwoven with notes of violet

This beauty is intense and full-bodied

perhaps borrowing some of the airiness of the 2016 vintage

Giuseppe Quintarelli, Recioto della Valpolicella Classico 2011 750ML sale light toastA totem of the region, this is a stunning recioto born of six months appassimento and a decade in barrel. Riffs on Chinotto, alpine spruce, bitter cherry, clove, mahogany and walnut husk, with a waft of something more exotic akin to incense and Chinese medicine cabinet. The finish is uncannily dry of feel, sooty and almost gritty, such is the tannic exactitude. Compelling gear, like discovering a new needle in a haystack of overwhelming complexity