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The wine is fermented in the customary manner, then placed in casks containing the lees (spent yeast) from an earlier batch of Amarone, a concentrated wine made from passito sweet wines.

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Appassimento: Italian term for drying harvested grapes, traditionally on bamboo racks or straw mats, for a few weeks up to several months to concentrate the sugars and flavors. This process is used in ...

This method is used to make some wines from Valpolicella, using the leftovers from the area's Recioto or Amarone wines, made from raisinated grapes dried on mats in the appassimento process.

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