Velenosi Querciantica Visciole Selezione 2020
Visciole Querciantica Superiore by Velenosi winery is a dessert wine made of cherries and Lacrima di Morro d’Alba grapes.
Deep ruby red with amaranth hues, the wine is intense and complex with sensual hints of violet flowers and ripe pulpy red fruit, as if a preserve.
The taste is smooth yet balanced in the richness of flavor and structure. Confirmation of the floral hints, in particular the cherry, blackberry and blueberry preserve. Excellent persistence. A wine to be paired with tea biscuits and bitter cocoa but also for meditating.
Perfect with petit fours with bitter chocolate. It can also be drunk as a wine for meditation or as a digestive at the end of a meal.
How is the wine made?
In order to produce “vino e visciole”, Velenosi uses an ancient variety of wild cherries (Prunus cerasus) which is dark red and has an aciduluous taste. The sour cherries are
picked during the first weeks of July and put to macerate, partly whole and partly crushed, with sugar. This triggers a fermentation which slowly produces a smooth and scented
syrup. This product is removed from the lees for some days and subsequently filtered. A highly sugar concentrated syrup is obtained and then mixed with wine (Lacrima), triggering another fermentation which blends the two identities (wine and syrup). The fermentation is halted at approximately a 14% alcohol volume, with a sugar residue guaranteeing pleasure.
About the winery
Velenosi winery was established in 1984, with the purpose of creating wines in harmony. Combining artisan tradition and modern technology, Ercole and Angela Velenosi, with Paolo Garbini from 2005, have creatively re-interpreted the wine-making process and established a company which today spreads worldwide the scents and colours of the Piceno territory through its unique wines.
Velenosi makes an extended selection of wines including Verdicchio, Rosso Piceno, Lacrima di Morro d’Alba and delicious dessert wine Visciole.
Recently Velenosi started making wines in a small estate in Abruzzo region as well focusing on traditional Abruzzo wines Trebbiano, Pecorino, Passerina and Montepulciano.
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