Primofiore IGT Veronese 2023
Vinous 93
Wine Description
Primofiore is the youngest red in the Quintarelli cellar and the most approachable door into one of Italy's great houses.
The blend is half Corvina and Corvinone, half Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, an unusual marriage that has become a signature of the estate, and like everything here the wine spends time in cask before it is released.
It leads with fresh cherry and raspberry over the Cabernet's darker currant tone, adds soft spice and a clean bitter almond close, and keeps its tannins supple throughout.
The 2023 is the current release, made to be drunk young while the Amarone sleeps upstairs.
Serve it at 16 to 18 °C with a light decant. At the counter of a Venetian bacaro it would meet polpette and salumi; at the table it likes bigoli with duck ragù, roast chicken or a simple steak.
Winery
Giuseppe Quintarelli, the quiet master of Valpolicella, ran his family's hillside estate at Negrar from 1950 until his death in 2012 and set a standard the region still measures itself against. His daughter Fiorenza and her family keep the cellar exactly as he left it: about eleven hectares of vines, long natural drying of the grapes, slow fermentations and years of rest in large old botti, with every wine released only when the family judges it ready. Production stays near sixty thousand bottles a year, and the famous handwritten labels still leave the estate at their own unhurried pace.
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