Beautiful Ripasso with a freshness and easy drinkability that together with the wine’s depth and complexity make it excellent as a food wine. Super aromatic and full of impressions of red fruits in taste and aroma, great concentration and intensity.
Genuine Italian food wine that works excellently with Danish Christmas food, game dishes, a good steak, hearty meat dishes and cheeses. The grapes come from Guerrieri Rizzardi’s vineyards in Negrar di Valpolicella. It was the Rizzardi family who founded the wine castle here in 1649, so there is a lot of history here. The wine is made from 60% Corvina, 20% Corvinone, 10% Rondinella and 10% Merlot.
The grapes were handpicked and only the ripest grapes were used. The destemmed and crushed grapes undergo alcoholic fermentation for 10 days at 25-28 degrees in stainless, temperature-controlled tanks, followed by malolactic fermentation. Early the following year, the wine was fermented again (the Ripasso method) on kvass from the Amarone, after which 10% Amarone was added. Aged for 12 months in large oak barrels.
About Guerrieri Rizzardi
Guerrieri Rizzardi sits on a large part of the very best and most sought-after vineyards in Soave, Valpolicella and Bardolino. And since 1998, when Giuseppe Rizzardi became a winemaker and viticulturist, the wines in the 200-year-old family company have undergone an almost revolutionary improvement in quality.
Giuseppe Guerrieri Rizzardi’s philosophy is a combination of originality and modern vinification. The wines must continue to taste of the local grapes, and the character will not change to high-alcohol wines with a focus on fruit rather than character. All wine is harvested as something completely special for Veneto, exclusively from its own fields, so that you can personally control every step of the process. They aim for organic viticulture and use cut grass for fertiliser.
In addition to a general tightening of the entire wine production, Giuseppe has also in the past period introduced hand-produced wines, which really manage to capture the essence of the individual field and which in a noble way also illustrate the area, the people behind it and the history and experiences of generations.
Rizzardi’s environmentally friendly wines
In 2011, a new vineyard just outside the town of Bardolino was completed. The vineyard is designed to be self-sufficient in energy, and its 2000 m² of solar panels provide more energy than is actually used. In addition, Rizzardi uses outdoor fermentation tanks for red wines, which use the sun’s energy to reach the fermentation temperature and a gravity system to bring the must to the fermentation tanks. The water used in production is even from our own well. It’s all for the benefit of the environment.
Rizzardi is committed to limiting the amount of artificial pest and weed control products used in the vineyards. To that end, the Italians planted shrubs and trees on the edge of the vineyards, deliberately chosen to attract beneficial insects capable of keeping pests under control. The latest project was to sow between the rows of vines. Plants such as peas, vetches and clovers. In 2016, Rizzardi also bought a four-hectare, organically certified vineyard on the hillside of Rocca del Garda.
Last but certainly not least, Rizzardi uses lightweight glass bottles for almost all wines, and everything used daily in the winery is recycled. It ranges from glasses, corks and bottles to the paper in the office and packaging.
