Contrada Palui, Valpolicella Superiore "Graspo Alto" Veneto, Italy 2022 sustainable and fine with great length

and fine with great length

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and few other whiskeys can offer even a glimpse of the great whiskey making found in Eagle Rare

Fermentation was with native yeasts

facilitating the ripening of the grapes

Contrada Palui, Valpolicella Superiore "Graspo Alto" Veneto, Italy 2022 sustainable and fine with great lengthHilltop Valpolicella from Clay Amphorae. Originally from Alto Adige, Hannes Pichler moved to Valpolicella a decade ago to farm a 3 hectare abandoned cow pasture on top of a hill east of Negrar, at between 500 550 meters, the highest elevation of the DOC. With an outsiders fresh approach, Hannes planted a selection of Corvina, Rondinella, and Corvinone, specifically avoiding the Bordelaise varieties that he says almost everyone in the region uses