
Quintessenz Passito DOC 2017
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- Varietal(s): Moscato Giallo
- Age of vines: 30 years
- Temperature: 12 – 14 °C
- Age-ability: 2021 – 2041
- Yield: 18 hl/ha
- Vine training: Pergola + Wire-trained
- Alcohol: 11,5 %
- Residual sugar: 190,0 g/l
- Tot. Acidity: 8,0 g/l
- Contains sulphites
Vintage
After an unusually dry winter and early appearance of the new shoots, at the end of April we had a period of frost but fortunately we got off lightly. At the beginning of May the first grape blossoms started to open. Following a wet July accompanied by thunderstorms, some with local hailstorms, the vines made fast progress towards the final ripening stage. The harvest began very early at the finishing of August and after about one month it finished at the beginning of October.
Tasting notes
– bright golden-yellow
– rich bouquet of fruit, nutmeg, mandarin oranges, and exotic candied fruit
– smooth power on the palate, orange peel and mango, the wine surprises pleasantly with a crisp, clean finish
Recommendation
This wine is ideal as a dessert on its own, or to enjoy with ripe, blue cheeses.
Vinification
Harvesting of fully ripe grapes, which were then dried on straw mats for five months and pressed in March (35°KMW), 18 l must from 100 kg fresh grapes, spontaneous fermentation and 24-month ageing on the fine lees in tonneau.
Vineyard
Southwest-facing slope 300 meters above sea level, balmy and aerated micro-climate. Sandy weathered chalk.
Awards
- Robert Parker - 2014: 95 p., 2015: 95+ p., 2016: 96 p., 2017: 95 p.,
- James Suckling - 2017: 94p.,
- Vinous - 2014: 95 p., 2016: 90 p.,
- Gardini Notes - 2015: 93 p., 2016: 94 p.,
- Gambero Rosso - 2014: 2 Bicchieri rossi,
- Doctor Wine - 2014: 95 p. - Faccino, 2015: 91 p., 2016: 92 p.,
- Bibenda - 2015: 5 Grappoli, 2016: 5 Grappoli, 2021: 4 Grappoli,
- I Vini di Veronelli - 2014: Super Tre Stelle, 2015: Tre Stelle Oro, 2016: Tre Stelle Oro, 2017: Tre Stelle Oro,
- Luca Maroni - 2014: 95 p., 2015: 96 p., 2016: 96 p., 2017: 96 p.,
- Falstaff - 2015: 92 p., 2016: 92 p., 2017: 93 p.,
- Wein Plus - 92 p. hervorragender Wein
- Decanter - 2017: 97 p.,
- Vinum - 2017: 95 p.,
- Luca Maroni - 2017: 96 p.,
- The Wine Journal - Eros Teboni - 2017: 96 p.,
- Gault Millau - 2017: 3 Trauben