Cantina Mabis Neropasso MAGNUM

Cantina Mabis Neropasso MAGNUM. Corvinone, Corvina and Cabernet Sauvignon from Venice, Italy. This wine has an intense ruby red color. In the bouquet spicy with hints of cherries, black cherries and plum compote. Fine and velvety on the palette, held firm, round tannins on the finish.

Corvina is a blue grape of reasonable quality and is the main ingredient of the Valpolicella and Bardolino, both light red wines from northeastern Italy. The grape rarely produces much color and tannin, but has a soft flavor with mild cherry fruit and some almonds. Corvina is at its best when the grape is dried for recioto and amorano wines. Corvina has a small grape with a thick skin, which shrivels and protects against rot.

The grape Corvinone – which literally means ‘great Corvina’ – is traditionally seen as a subvariety or mutation of the Corvina. However, more and more experts today agree that the Corvinone is at best a distant relative of the Corvina. The Corvinone produces fruit on the first sprouts of the plant and has a deeper color, a higher sugar content and firmer tannins than the Corvina. If yields are kept low, corvinone gives juicy, purple fruit and lots of aroma to the wine. It is also very suitable for drying

Cabernet Sauvignon is best known in Bordeaux where, together with merlot and cabernet franc, it produces high-class wines. It needs a lot of heat to ripen, otherwise it will become green and juicy with a taste of green pepper. Too much heat makes it soft and jam-like, with a taste of blackcurrants. Cabernet Sauvignon produces very aromatic wines with scents of blackcurrant, vanilla, spices (pepper), tobacco, plum, cherry, toasted bread and cedar. The wines usually have a long shelf life, have a lot of tannin and in principle have to mature in barriques. In general, the wines have a high phenol content, they are purple (young) or dark red (old) and have a lot of strength and structure. Cabernet Sauvignon can be found all over the world. Wherever someone wants to make a ‘serious’ wine, cabernet sauvignon is planted.

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