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This is Quintarelli’s fastest selling wine at IWM—and for good reson. Imagine being able to buy a Picasso for a couple hundred dollars because he’d called it a “doodle” rather than a “line drawing.” That renaming is essentially the scenario of this wine. Quintarelli is the Master of the Veneto, and as such, he holds himself and his wines to impeccably high standards. When he has a vintage that doesn’t meet his aerie idea of an Amarone, he declassifies it as an IGT wine, and that’s exactly what he did in 2002. Make no mistake about it: this Rosso del Bepi is a highly collectable, gorgeously drinkable wine that shows all the earmarks of Quintarelli Amarone: fistfuls of ripe fruit grasped in the texture of a velvet glove, an expansive palate, and Amarone’s ineffable quality of richness, lushness and opulence.
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