Giuseppe Quintarelli, Alzero Cabernet, 1995 msk_champagne_pre-sale_2023 Despite the name

Despite the name

This is natural winemaking unafraid to be fun

refined edge that most Gamay never finds

alpine lift that speaks to the altitude

Giuseppe Quintarelli, Alzero Cabernet, 1995 msk_champagne_pre-sale_2023 Despite the nameQuintarelli's Alzero, one of the most unique and sought after wines in all of Italy, here in a mature 1995. The late Giuseppe Quintarelli, a radical traditionalist of Valpolicella, made this Cabernet based red (Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and a touch of Merlot) in the Amarone style: grapes dried for months, then long aging in French and Slavonian oak. It is dry, but with a depth and dried fruit intensity that recalls great Amarone, unmistakably