"Crushendo" Valpolicella Classico di Veneto
The power grape of Italy's famed Valpolicella, Bardolino and Amarone, Corvina is renowned for fruity, full-bodied wines with cherry aromas and a hint of almond. The Veneto region stretches from the northeast border with Austria down to coastal Venice, with a mild continental climate ideal for long, controlled ripening and intense grapes.
Corvina Classico has lush, intriguing aromas of ripe red cherries and raspberries, delicate hints of almond, toast and spice and a richly tannic finish that has the fruit lingering on your palate for many minutes.
In the historic footsteps of Amarone - a wine fermented with a reserve of crushed grapeskins - the Crushendo grape pack brings immense grape tannin and character to the wine, and the special EC1118 yeast enhances the wonderful cherry fruitiness. Right out of the carboy this wine will have intense, gripping tannins, and although drinkable immediately, it will open up and blossom into a wine of unique power and elegance over two to four years.
Explaining Crushendo
The key to making red wine is in the skin of
the grapes.
The flesh of red grapes is pale yellow: most of the
color, flavor, and aroma compounds lie within
the skin. Traditional winemaking includes the
skin in with the fermenting wine to extract these
compounds. Until now, wine kits have been made
with unfermented juice soaked with skins, but without
alcohol (by law, kits can't contain alcohol).
As a result, some of the compounds were very
difficult to extract.
Now, by including the skins, and packaging them
separately, Winexpert Estate Series Crushendo kits
can deliver every nuance, all of the tannin, the
brilliant colors and flavors of a super-premium red
wine, with all the ageing potential and lush flavors
of the best commercial wines.
And it's easy! Winexpert Estate Series Crushendo
is as easy to make as our other Estate Series kits.
The Crushendo grape pack and the ultra-premium
vineyard-designated juices give brilliant aromas and
flavors, and a velvety tannic grip, to make a wine of
unique and piercing intensity.
- Instructions
- Contains 18 litres of concentrated verietal juice, yeast and all required additives
- Yields 6 gallons of wine or about 30 750ml bottles
- Ready to bottle in 8 weeks
- Age 6-12 months
