Community Tasting Notes 3

• Papies wrote: 96 points

  October 21, 2023 - Annual Pilgrimage to Piedmont - 2023 Edition; 10/20/2023-10/22/2023 (Piedmont, Italy): “We have done something too bokou, but we had to” our friend and all around wine guru told us and at that point we knew something great was coming.
  Decanted and served and this was an experience to cherish as rarely Amarone of this age and development comes into our lives let alone from top provenance like the exceptional cellar of La Ciau del Tornavento.
  The well is fully matured and evolved but it is still an amarone and thus very much alive and kicking, bright and energetic on the palate albeit soft for the style and with a mellow feel on the palate. This is like meeting a 60yr old linebacker, still strong but also the years have mellowed him down to a calm and composed presence that doesn’t want to push you out of the field. Earthy in a way we have not see in an amorphe, soft kiss of a spice/ medicinal at times even a hint of liquorice we felt. Magical and an easy 96

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• canan wrote: 92 points

  November 3, 2012 - Honorary Quintarelli Tasting (Copenhagen): Expressive an open nose that has some fresh cherry fruit but also a little sewer and white pepper.
  Unfortunately it does seem to lack some acidity on the palate which seems to make the wine seem a little flat and even a little boring?
  Perhaps it is also a little closed but I found it very difficult to determine the actual quality of the wine.

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• Rupert wrote:

  September 15, 2009 - The Amarones of Giuseppe Quintarelli 1971 - 1998 (Institute of Directors, London): Smoky chocolate nose, sweet fruit, concentrated, sharp, too heavy

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1988
• Type Red
• Producer Giuseppe Quintarelli
• Varietal Corvina Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Veneto
• SubRegion Valpolicella
• Appellation Amarone della Valpolicella Classico

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• Pending Delivery 3 (4%)
• In Cellars 39 (57%)
• Consumed 26 (38%)

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