Amarone Valpolicella Classico Riserva 2019

Description

Still red wine, 16% ABV, produced by Tenuta Santa Maria in Veneto. Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva, 2019 vintage. An Amarone Riserva that expresses the excellence of Valpolicella, a powerful and complex wine, the result of careful grape selection and lengthy aging. The elegant and complex nose offers notes of cherry jam, dried roses, and spicy spices. Ruby red in color with garnet highlights. On the palate, it is warm and smooth, well-structured, with a high alcohol content balanced by velvety tannins and elegant acidity and freshness. An ideal wine to accompany red meats, game, and aged cheeses.

Details

Perfume

Elegant and complex olfactory impact of cherry jam, dried rose and spicy spices.

Color

Ruby red with garnet reflections.

Taste

On the palate it is warm and soft, with great structure and high alcohol content balanced by velvety tannins and elegant acidity and freshness.

Serve at:

18 - 20 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Producer

Producer

Tenuta Santa Maria

From this winery

• Oenologist: Matteo Bernabei, Stefano Gabrieli
• Bottles produced: 100.000
• Hectares: 32

The bertani family’s generations of winemaking experience have helped to form a unique philosophy for the creation of fine wines, through meticulous care of the vineyard, sustainable viticultural methods, time-honored techniques, Veronese varietals and the adoption of current innovations. Careful work in the cellar and long aging serve to preserve the product of the vine, bringing a distinct equilibrium to our wines as well as elegance and a great potential for aging in the bottle. The 16th century cellars of the Villa Mosconi Bertani in the Valpolicella Classica, the Tenuta Santa Maria in the Illasi Valley and the properties at Grezzana comprise a diverse terroir in which the major appellations of Veronese DOC wines may be found. Read more

Veneto

Technical Sheet

Name	Tenuta Santa Maria Amarone Valpolicella Classico Riserva 2019
Type	Red green still
Denomination	Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG
Vintage	2019
Size	0,75 l
Alcohol content	16.0% by volume
Grape varieties	75% Corvina, 15% Corvinone, 10% Rondinella
Country	Italy
Region	Veneto
Vendor	Tenuta Santa Maria
Soil composition	Hilly, clayey-calcareous soil.
Cultivation system	Guyot
Plants per hectare	5600
Harvest	Mid-September.
Wine making	An early harvest is conducted at the end of September of the best grapes from the vineyards of Arbizzano di Negrar in the Valpolicella Classica. The grapes are manually selected and harvested into boxes and then laid out to dry for 4-5 months in old fruit lofts on bamboo and wooden areoles in a protected but ventilated environment. Towards mid-January, once the sugar concentration is reached (after the bunches have lost 40-50% of their weight) the grapes are pressed and left to ferment for around 25-30 days at controlled temperatures with daily punching-down.
Aging	After pressing, the wine is decanted and put into large-capacity oak barrels where malolactic fermentation takes place. After almost 5 years, it is bottled for a further refinement of at least 6 months.
Allergens	Contains sulphites