Quintarelli Amarone 2000
I've mentioned before the special place Amarone takes in my heart. Any chance to try Quintarelli should be cherished. The great man himself passed away this year, and the world is poorer for it.
Not as dark and broody as I was expecting.
Liquor-soaked raisins covered in chocolate with some meat behind it.
Awesome backwards and properly bitter. Intense sweet dried fruit mixed with plums and the most bitter of dark chocolate. Proper mole style. Chillies. Long. Powerful. Amazing. For such power to be so nuanced, for all that layered complexity to be so clear and pristinely structured is remarkable.
*****
Tasted 4 December 2012 at SWiG