Italian Wine Processes?!
Answers: Can someone please differentiate the differences between appassimento, passito and recioto? What is the name (end product designation) of the wine produced by the ripasso method?
As you probably know, all these terms refer to winemaking with dried or partially dried grapes, which in Italian are known generally as Passito.
Appassimento is the name given to the process of picking and drying the grapes used in Amarone
Recioto is a legal classification for sweet red and white Passito wines made in Veneto, in particular Valpolicella
Ripasso is used to make dry Valpolicella (by refermenting the Valpolicalla wine on skins used for making Amarone)