Monte del Fra - Italy
Valpolicella Superiore Classico

Tasting Notes
It has a strong ruby red colour and after one year of ageing, its bouquet reminds of spices, pepper, bitter almond and morello cherry and plum jam. It is dry with a slightly bitterish final taste, sapid, balanced and velvety.
Wine Making
Rotary crushing with stripping. Good maceration with frequent pumping over to promote extraction of bouquet, colour and high quality natural tannins. End of fermentation with no marc and good temperature to promote the malolactic fermentation, cleaning, decanting, ageing in oak barrels of 5,000 liters, stabilization, bottling and stand in bottle for a few months before marketing.
Food Affinities
It goes well with white and red meat, roasted white meat and game fowl. To be served at room temperature.
Blend
80% Corvina, 10% Rondinella, 10% Molinara.
Analysis
Alcohol: 13.5%
Total acidity: 5.20 gr/ltr