TASTING NOTES:
Ruby red colour with intense garnet highlights. Its bouquet embraces the nose with hints of ripe black cherries, marasca cherries, ending with a spicy aroma of cinnamon, black pepper, cocoa and coffee. It is a structured wine, silky and embracing, and extremely elegant that holds all the typical characteristics of the Classica zone. Its soft and juicy marasca cherry effuses with a great expression of balsam.
FOOD PAIRING:
This wine is perfect for being served with game, barbecued meat, boiled meat and cheeses of different maturity. Perfect also with international dishes with modern flavours. Serving at 18°C.
CLASSIFICATION: Dop/Docg
TERROIR: Valpolicella Classica.
GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION: San Pietro in Cariano, at the foot of the hills.
TYPE: Dry red wine.
GRAPE VARIETIES:
65% Corvina and Corvinone
20%Rondinella
15% Molinara, Croatina, Pelara
VINIFICATION AND AGEING:
Harvested: in September, exclusively by hand. Only the bunches in the best condition from a technological, health and morphological viewpoint are selected.
Drying: the grapes are left to dry for about 3 months in drying rooms with controlled temperature and humidity.
Fermentation: between December and January the grapes are destemmed and crushed softly to respect the integrity of the peel. They are then fermented in stainless steel tanks with continuous and extended pressing, and the grape must is oxygenated for about 50 days with delastage at a controlled temperature of 8°-25° C.
Maturation: in wooden barrels for about 36 months.
Ageing: 12 months in the bottle.