Well if you know anything about the Italian culture it's a culture of using everything. Some of the finest meals are made from the extra little scraps of things. Let me tell you they've done it again with wine. Not many people know this, this is a Ripasso. It's the 2010 actually it's the Pasqua Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore. All that means is this is a type of wine that has been made with the leftovers from the Amarone process. The Amarone process they dry these grapes. Then they throw these baskets of dried grapes and they press a wine out of the dried grapes. The the ones I've been sitting out and they make a more concentrated wine. Well guess what? They take what was pressed and they start making wine from that point and blend in some more fresh juice and they make this wine. Ripasso means reprocessed essentially, like passed through again. That's what they've done here. What does that do? It creates something that's a little bit more than your normal wine. That's what we have here an eleven dollar Ripasso that is a twenty dollar value because of the finer elements.

It is and it's really a unique story that I think you told really well Joe. The wine comes together in a really nice delightful manner. It's got some beautiful round strawberry flavors sort of the back bone of this wine. You've got some beautiful layers of other flavors. You have chocolate, oak and some raspberry coming through in here. It lends itself more towards the red berry side, but there's also a little bit of blackberry, current and some cellaring from the oak barrels and stuff that have pushed a little bit of espresso coming through in this. It has a nice silky finish that's a really delightful wine. I mean nobody is not gonna like this. It is really very pleasing. It's got Amaroneesc which is like a baby Amarone wine which everyone loves. I mean this wine is really delicious.

Yeah, well you know it does because they're using both. What Matt's describing is sort of a nice red wine with a little of that elegance of the Amarone. The thing that you pick up right away that is in the middle of this wine is the raisin that is very characteristic. Sweet raisin, in the good way, that you pick up in an Amarone is in here. Ripasso it's repassed. It's reprocessed. Whatever you want to call it. It's delicious! The 2010 Pasqua Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore from Italy.

Love the strawberry.

Lots of strawberry.