Secondo Marco Recioto della Valpolicella 2015

Recioto is made from hand-harvested grapes selected for perfect maturation. After a long drying process of 120 days and a weight loss of 50%, the wine receives a prolonged pre- and post-fermentation maceration and is fermented with indigenous yeasts. The wine is matured for eight months in 700-liter Slavonian oak casks.

With just under 99 grams per liter of residual sugar, Recioto is a sweet wine with flavors of dried cherries, raspberries, and vanilla. Notes of dark chocolate, espresso, and warm baking spices complement the rich texture and raisin fruit character of this complex dessert wine. Cunning and considered, poised to realise every single hint and note. Such sweet emotion leaps out while fully savouring the range of evolving flavours.

Recioto is one of the world’s great wines to pair with desserts containing chocolate, coffee, or dried fruit such as Black Forest cake or tiramisu. But where Recioto truly stands out is with ripened cow’s milk cheeses, becoming unexpectedly delicious with blue-veined cheese served with macerated fruit.