2015 Quintarelli Alzero Cabernet IGT

40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Cabernet Franc, 20% Merlot

Harvested before most other grapes, at the end of August and beginning of September. After harvest, grapes sit in wooden boxes or on rush mats. Dried grapes are pressed in mid-December; after 20 days of maceration, alcoholic fermentation begins with indigenous yeasts. Fermentation lasts approximately 50 days, after which wine is aged in French barrels for two to three years, then racked into Slavonian oak barrels for four more years. During this ageing process, additional alcoholic fermentation takes place. 

Fresh and vibrant, this wine is bursting with every imaginable fruit, ripe off the tree.