Quintarelli

The late Giuseppe Quintarelli was a traditionalist but that pales into insignificance beside his search for truth and excellence in his wines. whether the early drinking white, though the incredible depth and complexity of his Amarones, he crafted and indeed love his wines as the sons he never had. His four daughters are now custodians of his extraordinary legacy, but his genes are as much in his wines as in them. He raised his wines through a painstaking regime in the small and old fashioned cellar and was always loth to part with them. Each bottle you ever taste represents the essence of the vines and the high country terroir that he exploited so well. He never even nodded to the fashion for barriques that swept some of his more impressionable colleagues in Valpolicella, preferring to show year after year how good the wines are that came from his large, old casks. And now he has gone, but truly lives on in his wines. Every time a bottle is opened by wine lovers a toast should be made to Giuseppe, Valpolicella`s brightest star. (CW 08/07/14)