Giuseppe Quintarelli Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2018, natural wine bottle at Primal Wine
Giuseppe Quintarelli
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Giuseppe Quintarelli Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2018

$450.00
Tasting notes

The 2018 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico slowly evolves with a mix of dusty dried violets, cedar box, cardamom, stone dust and dried black cherries, with textures of pure silk. Bright red berry fruits wash across the palate with a tactile staining of minerals and sweet tannins, closing with blue and purple inner florals over notes of licorice and clove.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
Black CherryVioletLicoriceClove
Dry/Sweet:Dry
Wine Type:Red Wine
Wine Style:Full Body
Grapes:Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella
Vintage:2018
Alcohol:16.5%
Country:Italy
Region:Veneto
Appellation:Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG
Bottle Size:750ml
Sugar Level:Zero Added Sugar
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Giuseppe Quintarelli Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2018
$450.00

Producer profile

Giuseppe Quintarelli

The estate traces to the early 1900s, when Silvio Quintarelli farmed vines on a sharecropping basis at Figari in Marano di Valpolicella. After the First World War he moved to Negrar and founded his own vineyard in 1924. His son Giuseppe, known as Bepi, born in 1927, took over management in the early 1950s and ran the estate for six decades until his death in 2012. He is widely regarded as the father of Amarone as a serious, ageable category, and Romano Dal Forno worked closely with him early in his career. The property covers 12 hectares and produces around 60,000 bottles a year.

The vineyards sit on the eastern slope of the Negrar Valley at around 500 metres of elevation, with additional plots at Valgatara, Sant'Ambrogio, and Montorio. The soils include limestone and volcanic formations, with the Cerè di Negrar site noted for its limestone content and the Sant'Ambrogio site more calcareous and fossil-rich. The hillsides are steep, aiding drainage. The estate grows the traditional Valpolicella varieties led by Corvina, Corvinone, and Rondinella, alongside international plantings including Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Nebbiolo, and Sangiovese. The vineyards are farmed without chemicals and yields are kept low.

The current generation, Fiorenza, her husband Giampaolo Grigoli, and grandsons Francesco and Lorenzo, run the estate, with Lorenzo a graduated enologist. Grapes are dried by appassimento on racks in a ventilated loft, with the top wines dried for five months or more. After pressing, fermentation is carried out with indigenous yeasts at low temperature. The wines age for many years in large-format Slavonian oak botti, up to a decade for the top bottlings. The Amarone Classico ages a minimum of seven years and the Riserva ten years. Wines are released only in vintages the family judges worthy.

Wine region

Veneto, Italy

Valpolicella lies in northeastern Italy north of Verona in the Veneto, set between the Alps to the north and Lake Garda to the south. The landscape is marked by terraced hillsides at elevations between roughly 150 and 450 metres, mostly facing southeast or southwest. The climate is mild and not heavily rainy, with annual rainfall around 850 to 1000 millimetres, moderated by Lake Garda to the west and by the Lessini Mountains to the north, which bring cooling downdrafts. Autumn fog assists the natural drying of grapes. The soils derive from calcareous-dolomitic formations, basalts, and moraine and fluvial deposits of volcanic origin, with marl, clay, and limestone widespread. Limestone and marl dominate to the north and west, while basaltic and volcanic components appear toward the east and south.

Amarone della Valpolicella was registered as a DOC under a decree of 21 August 1968 and was elevated to DOCG status by decree of 4 December 2009, effective from the 2010 harvest. The blend requires Corvina Veronese between 45 and 95 percent, with Corvinone permitted to substitute up to 50 percent of that share, Rondinella from 5 to 30 percent, and up to 25 percent other authorized non-aromatic red varieties. Grapes are dried by appassimento, and wines must reach a minimum of 14 percent alcohol. Standard Amarone ages a minimum of two years and Riserva a minimum of four years. The zone is divided into Valpolicella Classica, the Valpantena sub-zone, and the broader DOC area. This estate works within the Classico zone in Negrar.

Frequently asked question

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

See here our shipping policy.

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Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

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If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

1) Reship the package right away: due to the very high cost of shipping and returns, we must charge a re-shipping fee to be determined based on package size and shipping destination.

2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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