Allegrini Winery produces a Palazzo Della Torre in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy , near fair Verona, the setting for William Shakespeare’s tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet. “The Wine Buyer” website reports that the “Geography and weather combine to create an ideal growing environment.”
Rated 90 points by Robert Parker, the Wine Advocate, this 2007 vintage dry red has a singularly intriguing production process, using a variation of the ripasso technique. About 30% of the grapes used to make this wine are left to dry until the end of December. In this separate process, they capture that raisin-y, dark fruit goodness. Then this enchanting liquid is added to the other 70% -- a blend primarily of Corvina Veronese – and refermented, resulting in a rich, smooth, full-bodied red .
Only minutes away from this new wine and beer shop in Belleville, Illinois, the Wine Girls might have missed a quality wine experience had they deemed themselves too busy to stop in at Grappa Growlers -- so glad we made the time!
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