Description

Amarone-like wine with a fruit-driven character, dates, plums, figs with hints of cocoa and roasted coffee. The best value you will ever get in valpolicella. Hands down best wine for the price. After 10 minutes you'd think you had a amarone in your hand. This is “declassified amarone”… for savvy consumers.

Area of production: Valpolicella,

Soil: mostly dark and red soils rich in debris, calcareous marls and basalt

Grape varieties: Corvina 70% - Rondinella 20% - Molinara 5% - Rosignola 5%

Alcohol: 15% vol.

Colour: intense ruby red with garnet tinges

Bouquet: rich and perfumed nose made up of ripe dark fruit, spices with scents of cocoa and tobacco.

Taste: full and velvety exhibiting dried and brandied dark fruit and cocoa

Harvest: highly selected grapes picked by hand into trays

Winemaking: 3-month natural drying, traditional skin contact for 4-5 weeks

Ageing: in oak barrels and barriques for 2 years, subsequently in steel and bottle before release

Consumption: within 6-8 years at 18° degrees

Food pairing: red braised meat, game, fermented cheeses or simply as meditation wine