Recioto della Valpolicella

Wine name: Recioto Valpolicella DOCG Azienda Ferragù Carlo.

Grape varieties: Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella.

Blend:  Recioto comes from blending the grapes from the following vine varieties in the percentages specified: Corvina veronese (or Cruina )  40-70%, Rondinella 20-40% and Croatina max 10%

City: Cellore, hamlet of Illasi.

Vine density: 4,000 vines per hectare.

Age of the vines:  40 years.

Training system: Guyot

Exposure:  East-west vineyard layout; altitude 240 meters above sea level.

Vineyard area: 1 hectare.

Type of soil:  Medium texture, presence of skeleton.

Output: 40 quintals/ha; 1 ½ kg per vine

Bottles produced per year: 1,000 bottles

Raisin-drying, vinification and fermentation: raising-drying 120 days; crushing/ destemming, controlled temperature fermentation with inoculation of selected yeasts (saccharomyces cerevisiae)

Refinement:  thirty six months in American oak barriques.

Harvest:  October, by hand.

Aging: Even during the first year but two years is preferred.

Characteristics (color, bouquet, flavor): Colors the glass with moving full redness.  Characteristic intense bouquet of red fruit with a distinctive taste of cherry and morello cherry jam that envelopes the palate with smooth fullness.

Alcohol content: 14°

Serving temperature: Uncork a few minutes before serving.  Excellent when served at 18 degrees.

Dining combinations: Excellent with all types of dessert. Mr. Carlo suggests you drink it together with fine plain chocolate.