Color
Deep, brilliant garnet red
Grape Varieties
| Grape |
% |
|
Corvina
|
70
|
|
Rondinella
|
20
|
|
Corvinone
|
10
|
Aroma
Intensely fruity notes of cherries and cherries preserved in alcohol, plum preserve and distinct spicy hints of cinnamon, cloves, pipe tobacco and cacao
Taste
Flavour: dry, rounded, warming and velvety, it is very well-structured and mouth-filling. It offers elegant fruity and spicy notes as well as great persistence on the palate
Cellaring Potential
6-10 yrs
Food Matching
Ideal with red meats, game and hard, mature cheeses. In its area of origin it is matched with the typical Veronese assortment of boiled and roast meats. Alternatively, it is splendid drunk just on its own, as a wine for accompanying conversation with friends. After a few years’ ageing, it can even be served to accompany top-quality chocolate!
Note: a majestic wine that has great structure and is extremely longlived: it is only produced in the very best vintages. It is dedicated to Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553), medic, philosopher, poet and the
author of literary works on wine, who lived at Incaffi, in the hinterland of Lake Garda
Vinification
The grapes are pressed, with very low yields in terms of wine, after 120 days of traditional drying in special rooms (fruttai), causing the sugars in the grapes to become more concentrated. The must ferments slowly for 18-20 days in contact with the skins at controlled temperatures of 22°-24°C.
Aging
Maturation: a proportion in traditional Slavonian oak casks and the rest in small Allier oak barrels.