Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018

Name: Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018
Brand: Kermit Lynch [KEL]
SKU: SF-5-KEL--081925-13
Price: 139.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$139⁹⁹

Almost nobody makes a Valpolicella like this: seven years in large Slavonian oak casks before release, longer than most estates age their Amarone. The Quintarelli family builds it from roughly 55% Corvina and Corvinone, 30% Rondinella and 15% of Cabernet Sauvignon, Nebbiolo, Croatina and Sangiovese, then re-passes the young wine over the drained Amarone skins, the ripasso method, so the cellar's own yeasts start a second fermentation and the wine gains body and depth. The 2018 landed at the lifted, finessed end of the house style rather than the brooding end, silky in texture and perfumed rather than massive. Think of it as Amarone's serious younger sibling: less unctuous, no less profound. Decant it, use a big glass, and it will drink beautifully for another decade or more.

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More about Giuseppe Quintarelli

Quintarelli has long been regarded as the quintessential producer of the Veneto, paradoxically for both traditional and experimental wines. That's because Giuseppe (Bepi) Quintarelli was on a ceaseless quest for quality, however it might be achieved.

In his fascinating interview with Levi Dalton on "I'll Drink to That," restaurateur Danny Meyer recalls how the maestro couldn't hold back from explaining what was wrong with each of his masterpieces as they were tasted. That sort of relentless need for improvement and uncompromising honesty sparkle in his wines, and each one is a rare, delicious, and profoundly satisfying experience.

In the years since his death, Bepi's family has maintained the traditions handed down to him by his father and grandfather, continuing to turn out wines that manage that rare magic of being profoundly deep and yet ethereal, of having structure and very long lives as well as elegance and grace from the time of their release.