Dominated by 80% Corvina Veronese and 20% Rondinella this classic dessert wine is made from carefully selected, fully ripened grapes that, immediately following harvest, are partially dried in farmhouses on traditional straw mats called "arelle" for up to 150 days to concentrate the sugars. The resulting wine is aged for 18 months in Allier barriques (50% new, 50% 1-year-old) followed by a period of refinement in bottle.
Brilliant purple coloured wine with a compelling fragrance that mingles classic notes of prune, raspberry, spice, hay and cocoa. Full-bodied, rich and enjoyably sweet, the residual sugar is perfectly balanced against a backbone of fruit and fine tannins, with lingering flavors of wild berries, chocolate and licorice.
