Giuseppe Quintarelli, Alzero Cabernet, 1995 msk_champagne_pre-sale_2023 classically proportioned Burgundy

classically proportioned Burgundy

real focus — and seventeen years on

and a touch of classic Long Island minerality

This is natural winemaking unafraid to be fun

or slow evenings where the wine gets the spotlight

Giuseppe Quintarelli, Alzero Cabernet, 1995 msk_champagne_pre-sale_2023 classically proportioned BurgundyQuintarelli's Alzero, one of the most unique and sought after wines in all of Italy, here in a mature 1995. The late Giuseppe Quintarelli, a radical traditionalist of Valpolicella, made this Cabernet based red (Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and a touch of Merlot) in the Amarone style: grapes dried for months, then long aging in French and Slavonian oak. It is dry, but with a depth and dried fruit intensity that recalls great Amarone, unmistakably