description: This Ripasso from the Valpantena Valley delivers a dusty quality of old spice, tar, resin and cola backed by peanut skin, hazelnut and very ripe fruit. The wine is chewy and thick but also offers good intensity and enduring flavors of blackberry and black cherry. —M.L.
variety: Corvina, Rondinella, Molinara
designation: Acini Ameni