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Recioto Docg - Organic

A deep ruby red wine, Recioto captures the nose with tasty aromas of ripe cherry in alcohol and glazed violet petals. A note of cocoa enriches the bouquet and is reminiscent of Boero chocolates, while stimulating fragrances of cloves and pink pepper favor drinking. Sweet on the palate at first, it is immediately balanced by a juicy freshness of red cherry pulp and strong tannin presence, which support sipping and keep it through to the end, together with a pleasant hint of toasted almond and a slight smoked note.
Recioto well pairs with chocolate-based desserts or dry pastry, according to the Veronese tradition. However, its decisive and medium sweet structure makes it suitable also for savory dishes, such as cheeses and seasoned salami.

• Grapes: Corvina (50%), Corvinone (30%), Rondinella (20%)
• Denomination: CGDO - Organic
• Soil: limestone clay
• Planting year: 2005
• Altitude: 220 m ASL
• Exposition: East-South-West ridge
• Training system: Guyot
• Density of plantation: 5,700 plants/ha
• Grape yield per hectare: 50 quintals
• Harvest time: mid-September
• Harvest: by hand, selection of the most suitable bunches for long drying
• Drying: 100 days on trellises, natural not forced

• Fermentation temperature: 16/18°C
• Fermentation length: 20 days
• Refinement: 6 months in steel
• Aging potential: very high
• Alcohol level: 16% vol
• Color: deep ruby red
• On the nose: aromas of ripe cherry in alcohol and glazed violet petals. A note of cocoa enriches the bouquet, while stimulating fragrances of cloves and pink pepper favor drinking
• In the mouth: sweet on the palate at first, it is immediately balanced by a juicy freshness of red cherry pulp and strong tannin presence, which support sipping and keep it through to the end, together with a pleasant hint of toasted almond and a slight smoked note.

What is Recioto to me?

“Sweet and a little alcoholic: that was the fragrance of cherries in alcohol prepared by his grandmother. He remembered her as she carefully and skillfully poured the mixture of sugar and alcohol into jars filled with small shiny red spheres, arranged neatly on the large wooden kitchen table. His grandmother was magical in his child’s eyes. She managed to lock the light and the warm scent of summer inside those jars, together with cherries.”