Azienda Agricola Boscaini Carlo - Recioto of Valpolicella D.O.C.G. Classic - La Sengia

Azienda Agricola Boscaini Carlo - In the heart of Valpolicella Classic - Since 1948 We Produce High Quality Wine

Our winery covers an area of 14 hectares over looking the famous village of St. Giorgio Ingannapoltron, known around the world for its marvelous ancient church, cloister, and archeological excavation. In the beginning, the late Carlo Boscaini (who lived to the venerable age of 102 drinking wine in modest quantity but high quality) produced wine with great passion, his son Arturo Ernesto supporting him.

Azienda Agricola Boscaini Carlo - Recioto of Valpolicella D.O.C.G. Classic - La Sengia

Ancient in origin, this delicate dessert wine is full of charm and has been enjoyed across the centuries. A wine par excellence. The prolonged drying of the grapes, even longer than those of the Amarone wine, gives rise to a higher degree of fruitiness and sweetness in the resulting wine. Not all of the sugar in the original grapemust turns to alcohol during fermentation.

This creates an alluring red with both sugar and alcohol weaving a silky sweet interplay with the aroma of summer roses giving way on the palate to fruits of the forest and a marked cherry edge to the finish.

A great wine for drinking with sweet pastries and rich creamy puddings and cheeses. In more recent times it has also been offered as a social wine or as an appetiser.

Specifications

Grape varieties: Corvina 40%, Corvinone 30%, Rondinella 20%, Dindarella & Croatina 10%

Origin Growing system: Guyot; 4,000 vinestocks per hectare

Winemaking: Selective grapes used and then air dried until end February. Controlled cold fermentation for 10 days with re-mixing three times daily. Rapid draining off to maintain the sweetness of the wine

Refinement in bottle 6 months

Analysis: 13.5% volume

Storage: Keep the bottle away from light at no more than 20°C

Bottle: classic 0.50

No of bottles produced 3,000