Le Guaite Recioto della Valpolicella
This is a naturally sweet wine (unfortified). It is absolutely delicious served at room temperature with chocolate deserts or cheeses!
This is a naturally sweet wine (unfortified). It is absolutely delicious served at room temperature with chocolate deserts or cheeses!
Tasting Notes from Celtic Whiskey Shop and Wines on the Green | |
Nose | Intense, complex, fine, fruity with frank notes of dried fruits (dried plum, cherry in alcohol, red fruit jam). |
Palate | The palate of this wine is sweet, warm, velvety, quite tannic, balanced, intense, very persistent, fine. |
Colour | Garnet |
Fact Sheet | |
Grape Variety | 35% Corvina, 20% Rondinella, 35% Corvinone, 10% other Grapes (Oseleta, Cabernet and Coatina) |
Alcohol % | 13.5% |
Estate/Producer | La Guaite |
Country | Italy |
Region/AOC | Veneto |
Vintage | 2014 |
Making Techniques | The grapes are dried for 6 months before fermentation. After this the wine is matured in French oak for 36 months and then a further 24 months in bottle before release. |
Closure | Cork |
Cellaring/Ageing Potential | Drink now through to 2035 |