Giuseppe Quintarelli Veneto Rosso "Primofiore" 2023, natural wine bottle at Primal Wine
Giuseppe Quintarelli
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Giuseppe Quintarelli Veneto Rosso "Primofiore" 2023

$140.00
Tasting notes

The 2023 Primofiore opens with dusty rose tones and aromas of tangerine, wild strawberries and stone dust, with violet and lavender notes and ripe blackberry fruit. The finish is dry and long with a subtle tannic crunch and a hint of wild blueberry.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
Wild StrawberryBlackberryVioletLavender
Dry/Sweet:Dry
Wine Type:Red Wine
Wine Style:Full Body
Grapes:Corvina, Corvinone, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc
Vintage:2023
Alcohol:13.5%
Country:Italy
Region:Veneto
Appellation:Veneto IGT
Bottle Size:750ml
Sugar Level:Zero Added Sugar
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Giuseppe Quintarelli Veneto Rosso "Primofiore" 2023
$140.00

Producer profile

Giuseppe Quintarelli

The Quintarelli estate traces its roots to the early 1900s, when Silvio Quintarelli farmed vines as a sharecropper in Figari, in Marano di Valpolicella. After the First World War he moved to Cerè di Negrar and founded his own estate in 1924. His son Giuseppe, known as Bepi and born in 1927, took over management around 1950 and ran the property for six decades, becoming widely regarded as a father of the modern Amarone style. Giuseppe died in 2012, and the estate continues under his daughter Fiorenza, son-in-law Giampaolo and grandsons Francesco and Lorenzo. The property covers roughly 11 to 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 in Valgatara, Sant'Ambrogio and Montorio. Soils are predominantly calcareous with basaltic areas, and vines average around 30 years of age. The estate grows the traditional Valpolicella varieties led by Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella, alongside international plantings such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc that Giuseppe pioneered in the region. Local varieties are trained on the traditional Veronese pergola, while the international varieties are trained on Guyot. Chemical herbicides are avoided, and yields are kept low through strict pruning and green harvesting.

Harvest is carried out late and entirely by hand into small wooden crates, with grapes for the estate's dried-grape wines laid out for appassimento. Fermentation is carried out with indigenous yeasts. The wines are aged patiently in large hand-carved Slavonian oak botti, with the Amarone Classico aging a minimum of seven years and the Riserva ten years, and wines released only when the family's quality standard is met. Amarone is made only in favorable vintages; in average years the fruit is declassified and bottled as Rosso del Bepi. The family applies the handwritten labels that mark each bottle.

Wine region

Veneto, Italy

Valpolicella lies in the Veneto of northeastern Italy, in the hills north of Verona, stretching from the foothills of the Lessini Mountains down toward the Adige River. Vineyards occupy hillside bands running from roughly 120 metres on the valley floors up past 450 to 500 metres in the pre-Alpine foothills, across several valleys that open toward Verona and Lake Garda. The geology is varied: marly limestone formations such as Biancone and Scaglia Rossa break down into lime-rich soils on the higher Classico slopes, while basaltic and volcanic material appears in parts of the Lessini, and alluvial sands and clays fill the valley floors. The climate is temperate and sub-continental, moderated by Lake Garda to the west and by cool ventilation descending from the Monti Lessini. Those moderating influences preserve acidity and aromatic lift in the region's Corvina-led reds.

The area is served by both Valpolicella DOC, first delimited in 1968, and Amarone della Valpolicella and Recioto della Valpolicella, elevated to DOCG on 4 December 2009, alongside the broad Veneto IGT introduced in the early 1990s to allow greater freedom of grape variety and technique. Valpolicella DOC blends are led by Corvina, permitted at 45 to 95 percent, joined by Corvinone and Rondinella, with Molinara and other varieties in smaller shares. The historic Classico zone covers five units in the west: Sant'Ambrogio, San Pietro in Cariano, and the valleys of Fumane, Marano and Negrar, with Valpantena recognized as a separate zone. Veneto IGT requires at least 85 percent of grapes from the region and permits Bordeaux varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. The Quintarelli estate sits within the Negrar valley of the Classico heartland and bottles Primofiore under the Veneto IGT designation.

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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.

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