A red with less bite.

[Innkeeper]

Fully concur with Roberto about the Salvalai Vino di Ripasso MONILE 1998, Veneto. Bought three of these from him; sending two home with a mixed case and consuming the third in our hotel home. This wine is an unbelievable value at $14. If you don't know what a Ripasso is, which we didn't before walking into WineExpo on Feb 13, it is a corvino based wine made this way. They take a regularly fermented Valpolicella and run it through a second fermentation on the pomace of an Amorone. It makes an easily quaffable full bodied, reasonably priced, red that goes with steak, game, sausages, and things of that ilk. Go for it newbies and ole timers.