Giuseppe Quintarelli Rosso del Bepi Veneto IGT 2005
Cerè di Negrar Vineyard, Blended Red
750 ml / Italy / 15% ABV

CT 93 | RP 95 | WA 95
"The 2005 Rosso del Bepi is made with the same blend of grapes found in the Valpolicella Superiore. Only in the case of this wine, the entire mass of fruit sees a four-month appassimento cycle. The wine is aged in large oak casks for eight years. A severe hail storm in 2005 reduced yields. The fruit was good in that vintage, but not good enough to become Amarone. All that potential got locked into this wine instead. Despite its age, the Rosso del Bepi offers surprising freshness and crispness with delineated tones of dried cherry and pressed rose. This wine has more decades of cellar aging locked within."
May 2017 (ML - Wine Advocate)

Giuseppe Quintarelli Rosso del Bepi Veneto IGT 2008
Cerè di Negrar Vineyard, Blended Red
750 ml / Italy / 15.5% ABV

CT 93 | WA 93
"This wine reflects the ideals of a classic blend of Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella (with a smaller percentage of other varieties mixed in for good measure), although you do feel some of the extra heat of the vintage, with some lingering sweetness on the close. The wine registers at 15.5% alcohol, and there are ripe nuances of dark fruit, sweet cherry and jammy blackberry. The wine is immediately open, accessible and beautiful, but like all of Quintarelli's releases, it would also benefit from additional aging."
August 2019 (ML - Wine Advocate)