2016 Giuseppe Quintarelli Cà del Merlo Veneto IGT

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 95 points

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  2/16/2024 - GooseGoose Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Notes of Cherry, Strawberry, Leather, high acidity, medium body, high alcohol. Great ruby/garnet color in the glass. We decanted this wine for around 45 minutes before tasting. The acidity was very high and you could not depict the leather or strawberry at this time. As we finished cooking dinner the wine continued to develop in the decanter. As we sat down for dinner the strawberry and leather started to show. The complexity and richer flavors began to appear as the acidity dropped. Great wine, bold and beautiful. Very hard to follow! 95 points.
  
  Drink now to 2040. 60+ minutes decanting recommended.

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  1/28/2024 - Tgood wrote:

  Dense but not ink - freshness reigns over the hint of surmaturite from the ripasso. Soft and silky - ready to go

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  1/16/2024 - EricU Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Excellent wine. Had a lot of air. Not normally a fan of 15%, but this worked well. Well integrated oak, interesting complexity side by side with a couple of Nebbiolos.

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  12/25/2023 - nmthree wrote:

  Quintarelli has long been regarded as the quintessential producer of the Veneto, paradoxically for both traditional and experimental wines. That's because Giuseppe (Bepi) Quintarelli was on a ceaseless quest for quality, however it might be achieved.
  
  In his fascinating interview with Levi Dalton on "I'll Drink to That," restaurateur Danny Meyer recalls how the maestro couldn't hold back from explaining what was wrong with each of his masterpieces as they were tasted. That sort of relentless need for improvement and uncompromising honesty sparkle in his wines, and each one is a rare, delicious, and profoundly satisfying experience.
  
  In the years since his death, Bepi's family has maintained the traditions handed down to him by his father and grandfather, continuing to turn out wines that manage that rare magic of being profoundly deep and yet ethereal, of having structure and very long lives as well as elegance and grace from the time of their release.

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