Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018 Esthers Thanks to the forestry commission

Thanks to the forestry commission

Crisp and crystalline chardonnay from old vines in the village of Vertus

From the importer: A deeply aromatic agave spirit with highly visible ‘legs’ that are left on the inside of a sipping glass when tasting the mezcal

Rising Tides balances 67% Grenache

farms a few hectares in Arlay at the center of the region and has since added parcels in Poligny

Giuseppe Quintarelli Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2018 Esthers Thanks to the forestry commissionAlmost nobody makes a Valpolicella like this: seven years in large Slavonian oak casks before release, longer than most estates age their Amarone. The Quintarelli family builds it from roughly 55% Corvina and Corvinone, 30% Rondinella and 15% of Cabernet Sauvignon, Nebbiolo, Croatina and Sangiovese, then re passes the young wine over the drained Amarone skins, the ripasso method, so the cellar's own yeasts start a second fermentation and the wine