Dal Forno Romano, Veneto Recioto, 1988 (1.5L) NET brooding Malbec

brooding Malbec

The lively

From Pauline Passot

Les Goudelettes sits on clay-limestone soils with white marl

like Burgundy

Dal Forno Romano, Veneto Recioto, 1988 (1.5L) NET brooding MalbecRecioto della Valpolicella is the original sweet wine of the Veneto, made from grapes dried for months until concentrated and raisined, and Romano Dal Forno makes it only in exceptional vintages with near fanatical precision. This is the 1988, in large format magnum, from a private collection, and it is fully mature. Nearly four decades have transformed the wine, trading primary sweetness for tertiary depth: dried fig, prune, leather, and bittersweet