Amarone della Valpolicella classico 2011/12 - 15% vol. Bertani Winery

Description: 
A wine with identity and personality, where elegance always reigns supreme. Complex, balanced and harmonious, of exceptional longevity. Intense red color with garnet reflections. The typical notes of plum, cherry and sour cherry stand out on the nose, followed by tea leaves, liquorice and spices. On the palate notes of red berries, accompanied by gentle spicy notes, in perfect balance with acidity and tannins. 

Grape variety: 
80% corvina veronese, 20% rondinella - Veneto Valpolicella DOCG. 

Production area: 
Valpolicella Classica, Novare wineyard in Arbizzano di Negrar.

Vinification: 
The Corvina and Rondinella grapes are left to dry in a completely natural way for a long time, around 120 days. Then they are slowly fermented in the middle of winter, which ensures a long maturation and thereby a really surprising longevity, even several decades! Then follows a slow fermentation in concrete vats that lasts about 50 days, of which 20 days of maceration on the skins. Then about six years of aging in Slavonian oak barrels and bottle aging for another 12 months. 

Food pairing: 
Ideal in combination with risotto with meat, blue cheese, mature cheese, pasta with meat sauce, game, red meat in sauce, roasted and grilled meat. 

Serving temperature: 
16 - 18°C. 

Ageing potential: 
more than 20 years. 

Bottle size: 
750 ml - 75 cl - 0,75 lt. 

Allergens: 
wine can contain sulphites. 

Producer: 
Bertani Winery 
Since 1857, the great wines of Verona have offered the unmistakable Bertani style, a flavor and a tradition that originate from an authentic wine-growing vocation rooted in the territory. In Casa Bertani, for 150 years, respect for tradition and a modern vision of the market have coexisted, from which the continuous experimentation combined with the enhancement of ancient techniques, vines and styles derives. Today Bertani has about 200 hectares of vineyards in all the main Veronese wine-growing areas. Of great value in particular is the splendid eighteenth-century estate of Novare, immersed in the vineyards of the classic Valpolicella and cradle of Amarone Bertani. In Valpantena, the only official cru of Valpolicella, the original viticultural and production center of the company is still operational, where several vintages of Amarone are preserved and where Secco Bertani is still produced, the first wine created since the end of the 1800s. 

Bertani Azienda Agricola 
Via Asiago 1 
IT - 37023 Grezzano (VR) 
www.bertani.net