2004 Allegrini Paslazzo Della Torre

[winoweenie]

Ah Yes! My love of the grape Italiano grows greater by leaps and boundless! Having absolutely no ideer what I had in me kisser I immediaterly called 2 of the Italian Ex-Sperts on the board to find out the grape varietal, who on the label was the vvineyard, and variuos other questions I had about this bottling. Neither had the answer but one suggested I call the mighty Roberto which immediately put the matter tobed. He informed me this was made from the Valpolicello grape that is then reintrodeced to the must from Amarone after the original juice has been drained. This 2nd pass over the Amarone grapes gives this light-weight juice heft and complexity that doesn't equate with the regular stuff. Howm-so-ebberly this is a kick-patootie bottle of juice. I was informed this is called Ripaso which means something in Italian. Lovely floral nose that has a candied edge to it and meaty, gamy notes. All hit the palate running. Lovely entry, medium center a a solid 3&3/4 lapper finish. 90/93 19.86 by the box. 13.5% alc. A box will be ordered 1st thing Mon Morn? WW ( Fat-Fingers strike agin...Make that Palazzo)

[This message has been edited by winoweenie (edited 03-01-2008).]

[Kcwhippet]

Now just a dern minute. When you called I deferred to our Italian wine guy in the store, and he said it was Valpolicella with Amarone. You don't remember that??

[winoweenie]

All I bemeber is the large DUH!!!WW [img]http://wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

[VouvrayHead]

One of my favorite under $20 wines...
(For those who might look for it, it's
palazzo, not paslazzo... no offense to the venerable WW's tremendous spelling)

I've been working and not posting-- but i still read all youse poets!

[winoweenie]

VH youse dint see me immediate correction of the mity FF spelling. WW

[VouvrayHead]

I'm guilty! guilty!

[TheEngineer]

Ripasso literally means Re-Pass in italian (or to one of my italian friends, "regurgitated wine" [img]http://wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]... that was not such a great description to me but he say that there are similar processes with milk that they do with similar results....

[newsguy]

didn't realize no one had posted about this bottling here. consistent quality from vintage to vintage. juicy, deep stuff with, as WW noted, nice floral notes. great value.

[Innkeeper]

If it didn't say Ripasso on the lable it would be hard to know. Glad Roberto helped out. There is a lot of Ripasso info on the Board if you seach for it.