2022, 'Campo Lavei' Valpolicella Superiore, Ca Rugate
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At a glance
- Grape
- Corvina 45%, Corvinone 40%, Rondinella 15%
- Region
- Veneto, Italy
- Alcohol
- 14.00%
- Body
- Medium
- Acidity
- Medium
- Tannins
- Medium
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Long (10-20 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Red Meat, Lamb, Game, Pasta
Why this wine
Valpolicella Superiore is the step above the everyday version — riper fruit, longer ageing, and no shortcuts. Ca' Rugate are among the region's most careful growers. Sour cherry and bitter almond, the Veneto signature.
Our advantages:
Description
How it tastes
Black fruit and cherry with coffee and oak spice, mellow and rounded with elegant tannins and a silky finish. Corvina 45%, Corvinone 40%, Rondinella 15%.
The producer
Some of the harvest is set aside each October to dry in wooden trays until the end of December, then blended with the undried fruit — the Valpolicella method that gives Superiore its extra weight. The Tessari family have farmed these volcanic hills since the early 1900s.
Food and drinking
Good with red meat, lamb, game and pasta. Drinking well now, with a decade or more ahead of it. Serve at 16–18°C.