94 International Wine Cellar

The 2015 Recioto della Valpolicella Ripasso Classico from Tommaso Bussola is a gorgeous wine, coming in at twelve percent octane and carrying a nice glaze of residual sugar. The wine wafts from the glass in a complex blend of desiccated black cherries and dark berries, raisins, dark soil tones, hung game, lovely spice tones and a topnote of cigar wrapper. On the palate the wine is deep, pure, full-bodied and tangy, with a great core of fruit, superb focus and grip, very good acids and a long, sweet and very complex finish. This just calls out for a snowy Saturday afternoon in January, with a fire on the hearth. 2020-2050.