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A vivid, focused Amarone with dark berry, dark chocolate, coffee and spice. Also bark and walnut. It’s full-bodied,...
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750ml - Case of 3
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One of two Allegrini wines making their debut on the Place de Bordeaux this year. From an 8ha vineyard at 415m....
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The Allegrini 2016 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Fieramonte is skewed tight and buttoned up in terms of...
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Very dense, tightly packed aromas of blackcurrants and blackberries, as well as notes of hazelnuts. Full-bodied and...
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An elegant, sophisticated wine with a noble profile and great aromatic expression. The enveloping and intense scent...
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Polished and expressive, this shows a smoky baseline of graphite-laced minerality, with fine-grained tannins and...
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Production was skipped over in 2007 due to extreme hail damage. The fruit that would normally be destined to Amarone...
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Production was skipped over in 2007 due to extreme hail damage. The fruit that would normally be destined to Amarone...
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The Dal Forno family considered the idea of releasing their Amarone ten years after the harvest. If that plan had...
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This was an excellent vintage in much of Italy, but unfortunately the weather was not as pleasant in this specific...
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This is a real bruiser of a wine, and it marks the first of three excellent back-to-back vintages (2011, 2012 and...
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The 2013 Amarone della Valpolicella Monte Lodoletta is my favorite wine in the retrospective, along with the amazing...
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With the 2016 still being held for release down the road as it slowly comes into focus, today it's the 2017 Amarone...
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Italy Veneto Valpolicella Pre-Arrival

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.

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.