The red dessert wine tributed to our mother
Rita is a red wine made from dried grapes like the Recioto della Valpolicella dedicated to our mother Rita.
The grapes are harvested in September in small boxes and pressed later the Appassimento, the wine is aged in oak barrels in order to obtain a structured and well balanced wine. Ideal with cheeses, chocolate cake, pandoro, panettone, cantuccini, sbrisolona.
Vintage 2019.

Production area
NEGRARDI VALPOLICELLA

Harvest – Appassimento drying process
We use the Appassimento procedure: manual selection of the best grapes in boxes where they natural dry to get more concentration and structure to the wine.

Winemaking
The fermentation takes place in steel containers. Every day you run day the breaking of the hat to obtain a higher extraction from the grapes.
Aging
The ageing takes place in 225 liters French oak barrels.

Tasting notes
Red garnet colour. The nose marmellatato and spirited with great complexity. very open and persistent bottom. In a very balanced mouth, ripe fruit aromas, black cherry; mouth of remarkable elegance immediately warm and enveloping, with ripe fruit and refreshing at the same time. Great length and persistence.

Grapes
Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella, Oseleta, Negrara

Alcohol content
12,50% Vol.

Pairing
cheeses, chocolate cake, pandoro, panettone, cantuccini, sbrisolona.

Service temperature
15°C
Cecily –
Wonderful red sweet wine, it is the same as the Recioto!