Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018 Esthers Rising Tides balances 67% Grenache

Rising Tides balances 67% Grenache

Moon Mountain's windswept heights have long produced some of California's most age-worthy Cabernets

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Use it as a functional substitute or addition to dry vermouth or dry sherry to add new depth to cocktails

From the importer: A deeply aromatic agave spirit with highly visible ‘legs’ that are left on the inside of a sipping glass when tasting the mezcal

Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018 Esthers Rising Tides balances 67% GrenacheAlmost 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