Recioto,1976SweetWine

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“Recioto,â€?as in “Recioto della Valpolicella,â€?refers to a dessert wine made from grapes that were dried on mats after picking. This process turns the grapes closer to raisins, concentrating the flavours. The wines are lovely and taste how you’d expect raisins-turned-wine to taste, rich and sweet.

This mature Recioto comes from F.lli Farina, a historic Veneto producer celebrated for crafting sweet, luscious wines from partially dried grapes that retain elegance and balance even after decades of ageing. The 1976 vintage displays a deep ruby-red colour with garnet highlights, showing the wine’s graceful evolution over nearly five decades.

Decanting: Stand the bottle upright for 2â€? days prior to opening to allow any sediment to settle. Decant slowly and carefully through a fine strainer, allowing 1â€? hours of gentle aeration before serving at 12â€?4°C. A fragile cork is very common with older bottles, where the wine has been in prolonged contact with the cork over many decades. We therefore recommend straining any cork fragments during the decanting process.