Giuseppe Quintarelli, Recioto della Valpolicella Riserva, 1990 SO031024 this bottle is just easing

this bottle is just easing into its first real drinking window with decades of life still ahead

The centenarian bush vines are planted in the traditional mixed style: roughly 60% red grapes (Bastardo

silky tannins and lively acidity

Frog’s Leap has championed dry farming and organic viticulture in Napa since 1981

using grapes from Demeter-certified biodynamic vineyards in La Mancha

Giuseppe Quintarelli, Recioto della Valpolicella Riserva, 1990 SO031024 this bottle is just easingRecioto della Valpolicella is the Veneto's original sweet red, and from the late, great Giuseppe Quintarelli it reaches rarefied heights, made from dried Corvina and Rondinella in the same unhurried, traditional style as his Amarone. This Riserva from 1990 is a mature back vintage from a private collection. Decades of aging have turned its dried grape sweetness into something profound: dried cherry, fig, cocoa, leather, and spice, with savory depth