Recioto Vigna Sere Dal Forno Half 2004

Recioto Vigna Sere Dal Forno Half 2004

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  • Vinous rating 96
Recioto Vigna Sere Dal Forno Half 2004
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37.5 cl

14%
£160.00
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Here is a beautiful Italian sweet wine from the Veneto. Produced from dried Covina, Rondinella, Croatina and Oseleta grapes, this is a truly opulent passito style. Only produced in exquisite vintages, the 2004 is a heady mix of mocha, bitter chocolate and juicy raisins, coming together on a luxuriously syrupy palate. Not to be missed.
96 Vinous
Bright deep ruby. Intense but refined aromas and flavors of red cherry jam, licorice cocoa and flinty minerals, with a bright violet topnote. Lively but harmonious acidity really lift and extend the rich high concentrated and multilayered flavors on the long, luscious and very precise finish. In many respects, this is always my favorite wine from Dal Forno, as I find it has impeccable balance (14% alcohol, 150g/L r.s. and 7g/L total acidity) and a very high easy-drinking quality (especially given a rather crazy-high 56g/L dry extract). The extremely high quality of this wine (it used to be labeled as a Recioto della Valpolicella) and Dal Forno’s exacting standards are well demonstrated by the fact that he has only made this wine six times in the roughly thirty year lifetime of the estate! Even though the 2004 vintage was marred by an early July hailstorm, this is one of Dal Forno’s best Reciotos ever.

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