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Review: 2017 Quintessenz Kalterersee Classico Superiore DOC

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Alto Adige is Italy’s northernmost wine area, bordering the Austrian alps on their southern aspect. The wines listed below are predominately white, but there’s a vital purple wine manufacturing as properly. Wines from the Alto Adige area often have excessive acidity ranges, ensuing from grapes grown in vineyards of 1500 meters altitude and up. The Quintessenz Kalterersee Classico Superiore is a purple wine created from the native black grape referred to as Schiava, a skinny skinned grape with medium tannins. 

This wine is darkish and ruby coloured, with a light-weight taste depth of principally black fruits, predominantly berries like blueberry and brambly blackberry, some black cherry, dried currants and cranberry on each the nostril and palate — all together with slightly floral violet. Some chocolate and cedar notes reveal the temporary time on oak put up fermentation, which provides to the complexity of the wine. 

The Quintessenz Kalterersee Classico Superiore tastes as scrumptious because it smells. It’s a lighter bodied, well-balanced, and stylish wine with excessive acid that leads to a vibrant purple wine that ought to be served at barely colder temperatures, whereas noshing on charcuterie, like speck or prosciutto or some nutty cheese. At a worth of $15, it is a complete rating. 

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2017 Quintessenz Kalterersee Classico Superiore DOC

$15

Score

9.5/10

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