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Tasting Notes

A richly flavoured and bold Ripasso wine - a wine that has been fermented TWICE!!

Perfumed on the nose, with aromas of sour cherry, sweet spices, and hints of toasted bread.
Intensely flavoured, dark cherry on the fore with some underlying red fruit, alongside liquorice, chocolate, and spice.

Rich and bold on the palate, dry and lushly textured, but balanced by a fine acid backbone.

A great example of the style.

Nerd Notes

Ripasso wines are wines that have been fermented TWICE. Once like a normal boring wine. The wine then has dried grapes added to it resulting in a small second and really very interesting and cool at parties fermentation.

A blend of Corvina (40%), Corvinone (30%), Rondinella (20%), and Molinara (10%) grapes. Grown and produced by the Adalia estate in the subregion of Valpolicella in Veneto, Italy.

Grown with organic and biodynamic vineyard cultivation., the grapes are harvested by hand, before being softly pressed into concrete tanks, where they are fermented with wild yeasts and macerated on skins for 7 days.
The wine is left to mature for 4 months in the concrete tanks, before being macerated on Amarone must for 7 to 10 days, causing the second fermentation, and finally matured for another 18 months in 25hL oak barrels.

The wine is bottled with minimal added sulphur.

Dietaries

  • Vegan
  • Low Sulphur
A bottle of Adalia 'Balt' Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore 2022 from Veneto, Italy

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