Skip to product information
1 of 2

Bertani

Bertani Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2008

Red still

Skip to product information
1 of 2
Regular price €168,00
Regular price €168,00 Sale price
Sale Sold out

Other years:

2015

Multiple purchases: add more bottles to cart with one click

€504,00

3 bottles

Immediate availability Last 4 bottles remaining
Denomination Amarone della Valpolicella DOC
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 15.0% by volume
Area Veneto (Italy)
Grape varieties 80% Corvina, 20% Rondinella
Aging In barrels of rovere of Slavonia for approximately six years. The barrels have a medium ability to 60 hl. It follows to the bottling a period of the minimal sharpening of 12 months
Other years 2015
View full details

Awards

  • 2008

    5

    Italian Sommelier Foundation (FIS) guide This has been one of the most prestigious wine guides in Italy for over 10 years.

  • 2008

    3

    This guide is highly respected and offers the most comprehensive review of Italian wines. It has a long tradition and is based on blind tastings carried out by over 100 experts.

1 of 2

Details

Profumo

Perfume

Detach to the nose typical notes of plum, cherry and marasca to which it follows a great variety of tones: fruit, spices and liquorice. One opens in mouth with all the fruits to red berry that are repeated for length, sweetened from notes of vanilla on a soft and thick material

Colore

Color

Intense red color, with ruby shadings.

Gusto

Taste

In perfect equilibrium with acidity and tannic notes.

Serve at:

18 - 20 °C.

Longevity:

15 - 25 years

Decanting time:

2 hours

Full Bodied and Very Aged Red Wines

Pairings

Seasoned meats, cheeses, game from pen, game or like wine from meditation

Meat
Game
Cheese

Producer
Bertani
From this winery
  • Start up year: 1857
  • Oenologist: Staff tecnico Angelini Wines & Estates
  • Bottles produced: 1.000.000
  • Hectares: 65
Remaining coherent with our most authentic identity represents an essential value for us. For more than a century and a half we have made wines that are recognizable for their identity, wines with a clear and therefore unmistakable stylistic profile. We have always chosen the path of territorial wines, even when it is method guiding us.

A path that at times is more difficult, but that builds solid relationships. It has never been enough to please our customers. We have always wanted to make them happy.

In 2021, the following wines were awarded:

- BERTANI - Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2012: Doctor Wine (96/100), The Wine Hunter Award (GOLD), Vinibuoni d'Italia (CROWN); Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ognisanti di Novare 2019: Doctor Wine (95/100), The Wine Hunter Award (RED); Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore Catullo 2018: The Wine Hunter Award (RED)

- VAL DI SUGA - Brunello di Montalcino Vigna Spuntali 2016: Doctor Wine (96/100), The Wine Hunter Award (RED), Vinibuoni d'Italia (CROWN); Brunello di Montalcino Vigna del Lago 2016: The Wine Hunter Award (GOLD); Brunello di Montalcino Poggio al Granchio 2016: The Wine Hunter Award (RED)

- TENUTE SAN SISTO: Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore Massaccio 2019: Doctor Wine (95/100), Vinibuoni d'Italia (CROWN); Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio Classico Riserva San Sisto 2018: The Wine Hunter Award RED, Vinibuoni d'Italia (CROWN)

- CANTINA PUIATTI: Venezia Giulia Archètipi Sauvignon 2018: The Wine Hunter Award (RED)

- TREROSE: Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva Simposio 2017: The Wine Hunter Award (GOLD), Vinibuoni d'Italia (CORONA); Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Santa Caterina 2018: The Wine Hunter Award (RED)
Read more

Name Bertani Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2008
Type Red still
Denomination Amarone della Valpolicella DOC
Vintage 2008
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 15.0% by volume
Grape varieties 80% Corvina, 20% Rondinella
Country Italy
Region Veneto
Vendor Bertani
Origin Tenuta Villa Novare ad Arbizzano di Negrar, in the heart of the Classic Valpolicella. The property is a great protect to north and opened natural amphitheater to south.
Soil composition In the east part a land of marno-limestone nature prevails while in the zone to the west various layers compose an agrarian land that it rests on limestone cliff slabs
Cultivation system To espalier, Guyot method. The vineyards are dedicated to the production of exclusively apt grapes to the withering
Plants per hectare 5.000
Yield per hectare Less than 5.000 kg
Harvest Second week of September with manual collection. After taken care of selection the grapes are transported in yielded of withering and carefullied lay down in an only layer over the graticci.
Fermentation temperature The maceration happens to a temperature much lowland of 4°/5°C that it then catches up the 18°C during the fermentation. This method contributes to the obtaining of high contents of advanced alcoli and glycerin, that they increase to the importance and the elegance of the scents.
Fermentation After a period of maceration it is arrived to a phase of slow fermentation, for a time total of approximately 50 days.
Production technique Natural withering in a period of approximately 120 days, in which all the operations are carried out daily and manually. Ended this along period of withering the grape catches up a degree sweetens of 24/25 Babo
Aging In barrels of rovere of Slavonia for approximately six years. The barrels have a medium ability to 60 hl. It follows to the bottling a period of the minimal sharpening of 12 months
Year production 100000 bottles
Allergens Contains sulphites