Community Tasting Note
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Sotto325 wrote: 91 points
October 3, 2020 - Everything Quintarelli did was, at a minimum, special--and often extraordinary. This wine shows as well the amazing transformation of Valpolicella-type blends that he took from mediocrity into the fine wine category. Over the years, the Rosso ca del Merlo has evolved from a more rough-hewn wine into a more integrated melange. In that journey, however, I think that it has lost a little bit of its edge, and this bottling was very pleasant, but not exceptional. It needed two hours of decanting and developed a very nice lush, chocolate and tobacco undertone with the usual very dark black/red hue. The complexity was decent, the marriage with a gutsy Italian meal was very nice, but the satisfaction was not on the level of his great Amarone or the DFR Valpolicella.
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