Independent Reports on Amarone & Valpolicella Wines
This the the blog section, with updates and news about Valpolicella wine region.
Get to the Source. When it comes to Valpolicella wines, it's not easy to get to its roots. Like it or not, you drink wine brands. Now it's time to focus on the origins of Valpolicella wines... because origin makes a great difference, here in Valpolicella.
We review regularly these wines: Valpolicella Classico, Valpolicella Classico Superiore, Valpolicella Ripasso, Amarone della Valpolicella, Amarone della Valpolicella Classico, Recioto della Valpolicella and Recioto della Valpolicella Classico.
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The vintage 2014 in Valpolicella risks to be remembered for its rainfalls and fungal aggressiveness: to find a similar one, you have to come back to 1995. Due to a month and half of heavy rain, hail storms and excessive soil humidity, the health of grapes seems to be undermined almost everywhere, with the exception of some hills exposed to local fresh winds.
Currently, this is the situation...
Read MoreValpolicella has many original grapes: Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella, Molinara, Oseleta, are the most widespread and renowned. Nevertheless, in the oldest vineyards there are still many grapes without a name or a story. Lately, one of them has found its name: Spigamonti.
It's a totally new variety of grape, in Veneto but also in Italy as well, never discovered before: its name is the same of the place (Spigamonti) where it was found, a location near Montecchio di Negrar, Verona, at 450 meters of altitude, in a vineyard belonging to a grape grower who is associated to the cooperative Cantina Valpolicella Negrar...
Read MoreTerroir Amarone delivers independent reports, tasting notes, wine reviews, wine travel tips, harvest reports, people and wineries in the land of Amarone and Valpolicella wines. Chief Editor Officers are Giampiero Nadali and Elisabetta Tosi, indigenous wine writers and marketers.
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