Grape - Corvina
Alcohol - 14.5%
Available from - lebonvin.co.uk (£24.50) Milan airport shop! (20euro)
Appearance - Clear, deep, ruby
Nose - Clean, medium+ intensity, youthful. Sweet cherries, violets
Palate - dry, medium+ intensity, high alcohol, medium acid, medium+ intensity, medium+ tannin, full body, long length. Red cherries, raspberries, chocolate, bramble. Drinkable now, but could be aged.
Delicious, silky Valpolicella. Really splendid but very expensive at £24.50 so one to drink when in Italy. The alcohol is very well integrated and it has considerable, and very pleasant, length.
Valpolicella Ripasso is so called because the wine is re-fermented with the skins of grapes used for 'passito' wines - (for example, Amarone). This provides greater flavour and character.
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