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This wine has a complex character. It is elegant, dry and persistent, true to tradition. A classic harmony, intense...
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The 2016 Amarone della Valpolicella Morandina is dark and youthfully understated in the glass, as crushed rose petals...
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Bright red color with tints of purple. The mineral notes in the wine are accentuated with the period of maturation in...
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Wildly perfumed in the glass, the 2020 Valpolicella Superiore Ripasso Morandina bursts with a peppery mix of spiced...
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The 2021 Valpolicella Superiore Ripasso Morandina is distinctly savory, wafting up with a thrust of herbs that gives...
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This blend of 50% Corvina, 30% Corvinone and 20% Rondinella shows depth and a nicely concentrated appearance. The...
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A wine of two parts, offering a nose of restraint before a judiciously endowed, nicely weighted palate of savoriness...
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A fruity and quite racy red with some nice plum and ripe berry character. Medium-bodied with a straight-through feel...
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Fruity, medium-bodied red with black-cherry and toasted-vanilla character, lightly firm tannins and a pleasant,...
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The Sartori 2015 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Corte Brà (with 12,000 bottles made) shows a good sense...
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Aromas of rose hips, dried red berries and pretty flowers. Spicy oak, too. The palate is full-bodied, concentrated...
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Aromas of dried cherries, prunes and light oak follow through to a full, round and silky palate with a...
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This offers aromas of dark-skinned berry, underbrush and scorched earth. It's smooth and medium bodied, with ripe...
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This complex and fragrant wine opens with dried violet, black plum and cooking spice aromas. The smooth,...
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Dark cherries, blackberries, mussels, licorice, figs and some finely ground black chocolate, following through to a...
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COLOR: Ruby red color with purplish highlights.
NOSE: Hints of violets and cherries.
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COLOR: Ruby red color.
NOSE: Red fruit, spices and cocoa.
FLAVOR: Smooth rounded tannins.
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The 2019 Valpolicella Superiore Classico Sant'Urbano is perfumed in the glass, as savory herbs, crushed rocks and...
Corvina Blend Merlot Italy Sicily Veneto
Corvina grapes are most commonly associated with the Veneto region of Italy, where they have been grown successfully for centuries, and are a vital component of the region's viticultural identity. The Corvina varietal is famed around the world for its inclusion in such fine wines as Amarone and Valpolicella, where it is blended with small quantities of other grape varietals to produce wines of exceptional character and balance. The grapes themselves have a naturally high level of acidity, which often results in an aftertaste of bitter almonds. However, this bitterness is quite a sought for feature of this varietal, as it balances beautifully with the sour cherry notes also associated with the grape. Corvina grapes have a wonderfully potential for aging, and this process mellows the bitterness and acids present in the fruit, resulting in soft, complex and highly admired wines.
With its dark blue colored fruits and high juice content, Merlot varietal grapes have long been a favorite of wine producers around the globe, with it being found in vineyards across Europe, the Americas and elsewhere in the New World. One of the distinguishing features of Merlot grapes is the fact that they have a relatively low tannin content and an exceptionally soft and fleshy character, meaning they are capable of producing incredibly rounded and mellow wines. This mellowness is balanced with plenty of flavor, however, and has made Merlot grapes the varietal of choice for softening other, more astringent and tannin-heavy wines, often resulting in truly exceptional produce. Merlot is regarded as one of the key 'Bordeaux' varietals for precisely this reason; when combined with the drier Cabernet Sauvignon, it is capable of blending beautifully to produce some of the finest wines available in the world.
There are few countries in the world with a viticultural history as long or as illustrious as that claimed by Italy. Grapes were first being grown and cultivated on Italian soil several thousand years ago by the Greeks and the Pheonicians, who named Italy 'Oenotria' – the land of wines – so impressed were they with the climate and the suitability of the soil for wine production. Of course, it was the rise of the Roman Empire which had the most lasting influence on wine production in Italy, and their influence can still be felt today, as much of the riches of the empire came about through their enthusiasm for producing wines and exporting it to neighbouring countries. Since those times, a vast amount of Italian land has remained primarily for vine cultivation, and thousands of wineries can be found throughout the entire length and breadth of this beautiful country, drenched in Mediterranean sunshine and benefiting from the excellent fertile soils found there. Italy remains very much a 'land of wines', and one could not imagine this country, its landscape and culture, without it.
The beautiful island of Sicily has been growing grapevines and producing wines for thousands of years, ever since the ancient Greeks first landed on its golden shores and noticed the island's true potential as a haven for quality grapes. Today, the island is one of Italy's primary wine regions, and even though over eighty percent of Sicily's grapevines are used for the production of sweet fortified wines, the remaining wineries making other wine styles are renowned around the world for their quality and character. Indeed, Sicilian wineries are famed for their ability to capture something of the sun-drenched region in their wines, and the vines they cultivate benefit enormously from the almost constant sunshine and the incredibly fertile volcanic soils which typify the island.
As historically one of the most important regions in the world regarding trade and experimentation, it comes as no surprise to discover that Veneto has always been a well respected and innovative wine region. This area of north-easterly area of Italy benefits greatly from a continental climate tempered by the Alps, and plenty of influence from the Germanic countries it is near to. Veneto is most commonly associated with beautifully elegant white wines, such as those of Soave, and has over ninety thousand hectares under vine. Impressively, within that area, over a third of the vineyards in the Veneto region have been granted official AOC status, and many of the sub-regions and appellations of Veneto have gone on to be world-famous in regards to quality. One such example is Valpolicella, where some of Italy's finest and most complex red wines are produced.