Passito

Dessert wines

Passito wine comes from grapes dried on mats or racks after picking. The drying concentrates sugar and flavour. Most passito is sweet; Amarone is the dry exception.

Base grapes

Corvinasour cherry, light, bitter almond
Garganegaalmond, pear, gentle
Muscat of Alexandriagrapey, floral, honeyed, often sweet
Aleaticorose-scented, sweet, grapey, soft
Trebbianoneutral, light, crisp

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Facts: Wikipedia, Straw wine (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikidata Q1058490 (CC0). The description, the grape list and the bands are ours.

Base grapes

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