Valpolicella Ripasso DOC Classico Superiore 2020
Wine Description
This Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore is I Vigneti di Ettore's middle weight red, from the family's organic vineyards in the Negrar valley crus. In the traditional manner of the zone, the young Valpolicella is passed over the skins left from the estate's Amarone, where a brief second fermentation adds body, colour and a dried cherry shade while the house style keeps the wine fresh, balanced and elegant rather than heavy.
The 2020 offers morello cherry and plum with hints of raisin, white pepper and sweet spice over supple tannins and a clean, savoury finish. It is ready now and will hold for several years. Serve at 16 to 18 °C, opened half an hour ahead, with fegato alla veneziana, bigoli with duck ragù, roast pork, or a risotto with radicchio; it is the bottle for the long family lunch.
Winery
I Vigneti di Ettore is the Righetti family estate at Negrar, begun in 1930 when Gioanin Righetti bought the Casetta farm and enlarged by his son Ettore, whose name the winery carries. Today Giampaolo Righetti, an agronomist, and his son Gabriele, a trained winemaker, farm nearly 19 hectares across five Negrar valley crus: Moron, Jago, Osteria Vecchia, Costa del Buso and Casetta. The vineyards, on alluvial, volcanic tuff and clay soils, are worked organically under pergola and Guyot, and the cellar aims for fresh, balanced, elegant wines, about 80,000 bottles a year.
Quick tool, nothing is sent
Shipping cost calculator
See what shipping costs to your country.
