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.
Discover wine prices and other insights about the best Valpolicella wines.
If you are a Valpolicella wine lover, it's likely you know many things about this area and its wines. And it's also likely that some of those things are incorrect or totally wrong...
Here we try to correct some of the most common misconceptions about Valpolicella wines.
Afterwards a quite difficult vintage, this 2015 harvest in Valpolicella looks a lot better, mainly for the red grapes. If 2014 has been claimed by the producers (in Verona area) as “a vintage for white wines”, 2015 is a “red wines vintage” definitely.
“The 2015 vintage is quite similar to 2007 - the Consortium Valpolicella says - The wines will be structured, full-bodied and alcoholic (15-16° Vol.)”...
Making wine is often a hard task, a game of balance between opposite strengths: technical issues, legal requirements, personal knowledge and vision, local culture, international taste, marketing trends...
And climate. Too often we underestimate this detail, but in viticulture it is among the most important element everywhere in the world. No doubts that climate in Valpolicella nowadays is rather different than in the past, and that viticulture has had to adapt itself to those changes.
Consequently, now the wines are different than in the past decades -not to mention other reasons more related to the technique or the customers' taste, of course- although the winery style may be the same at the time (or trying to be).
In the last Vinitaly, the Cantina "Valpolicella" di Negrar organized a quite interesting vertical tasting of its recent best vintages - 2008, 2005, 2003, 2000, 1997 - of the most important Amarone della Valpolicella: the cru "Vigneti di Jago". Daniele Accordini, the general manager and winemaker, showed us some charts and data about the climate in those vintages - sunlightining, rains, flowering time and other data - explaining how the practices of their viticulture and the winemaking process are adapting themselves and trying to correctly interpret the natural trends, in order to not distort the final result and support their usual style...
Read MoreIn a recent article on his BKWine Magazine, our good friend Per Karlsson deals the interesting question of cheaper Amarone della Valpolicella (mainly) in the Swedish market.
The point is that, due to the appassimento or ripasso technique (two different techniques that a #winelover has to learn to distinguish), almost any red wine can become sexier: velvety, sweeter sometimes, much more structured, fruity, powerful etc. In a word, more exciting. The perfect wine to impress everybody, don’t you agree? I mean, everybody who never tasted an authentic Amarone della Valpolicella before… because if you know this kind of wine, you also know that the technique is just a part of its success - this is not the moment to discuss also about this, though...
Read MoreIt's among the most renowned wines of the world, and maybe you also are a lover of this red wine, so elegant, velvety, fruity and powerful... yes, I'm talking about Amarone della Valpolicella. I guess that everybody knows how it is made... no?
The truth is that many wrong beliefs are widespread in the world about this wine: too many people, for example, still believe that the typical blend of grapes is Corvina, Rondinella, Molinara...
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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