Tenuta Sant’Antonio, Valpolicella DOC (Veneto, Italy) 2018

 This is a delightful wine with fresh spicy, floral aromas, juicy cherry, strawberry fruit, crisp acidity and ripe, integrated tannins.  The blend is 70% Corvina and 30% Rondinella from grapes selected from the winery’s youngest vines.  Fermented in temperature-controlled stainless for eight to ten days, it then spends six months in stainless steel on lees stirred weekly.  The closure is a glass stopper.  The goal of the producer was to rediscover the original style from 30 years ago or before.  Their aim is to “create a style, not necessarily strong or rich, but light with 12.5 alcohol.   A wine that is fruity and at the same time with some spicy notes, like pepper and a note like we have in our limestone soil.”  They did it.