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Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore PDO Organic

Ripasso is the result of an ancient peasant technique involving the re-fermentation of vintage Valpolicella to the grape marc used to produce Amarone and Recioto. The young wine obtained has a particularly vigorous character which meets the sweetest and most ripe hints of dried grapes.
The complexity of this encounter is already perceived in the color of the wine, which is an intense and bright ruby, enriched with warm garnet red streaks.

On the nose it releases hints of crunchy and juicy red cherry, alongside sweet aromas of ripe black cherry and blackberry jam.

Spicy notes of blond tobacco, clove and pink pepper meet fresher and balsamic hints of aromatic herbs, a musky note and a hint of licorice. On the palate it is pleasant and dynamic to drink, with an initial sensation of velvety sweetness immediately balanced by tannin, flavor and freshness and thus generating stimulating sensations of small red and dark fruits and a fresh aroma of resin.

• Grapes: Corvina (50%), Corvinone (30%) and Rondinella (20%)
• Denomination: PDO
• Soil: limestone clay
• Planting year: 2005
• Altitude: 220 m ASL
• Exposition: South-South/West ridge
• Training system: Guyot
• Density of plantation: 5,700 plants/ha
• Grape yield per hectare: 90 quintals
• Harvest time: early September
• Harvest: manual
• Fermentation temperature: 20°C

• Fermentation length: 15 days + 7 days re-fermentation on Amarone marc
• Refinement: 12 months in tonneau
• Aging potential: medium
• Alcohol level: 15% vol
• Color: bright ruby red with garnet streaks.
• On the nose: red cherry and blackberry jam. Blond tobacco, clove and pink pepper. Hints of aromatic herbs, licorice.
• In the mouth: sensation of velvety sweetness immediately balanced by tannin, sapidity and freshness, which generates stimulating sensations of small red and dark fruits and a fresh aroma of resin.

What is Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore to me?

“In the woods there was silence. You could only hear the rustle of the tree canopies moved by the wind and some fleeting chirps far away. From the hedge next to which he had stopped to observe his prey a sweet scent of ripe blackberries rose along with that unmistakable scent of pine needles, musk and resin. Suddenly a beat of wings shook the leaves.”