Winerist: 3 Top Wineries in Valpolicella

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We are happy and honored to announce a new important contribution and partnership with Winerist.com, the 2014 Best Travel Website. Winerist is an interesting and informative website for people all around the world who love travelling and exploring new experiences in the wine world: it  provides you suggestions and tips for your next wine destination. We'll contribute writing about Valpolicella, its territory, events, wineries and wines. Here you can find the beginning of our first post... 

"Never been to Valpolicella? If you are a wine lover, sooner or later you’re going to have to visit this area in the Veneto wine region, where the famous wines Amarone della Valpolicella and Valpolicella Ripasso are made. 

Valpolicella stretches 25km from west to east and 12km from north to south. The city of Verona is found in the south in the middle of a complex system of valleys that flow from north (Monti Lessini) to south. The Adige River limits Valpolicella in its western and southern sides. 

Usually, we divide Valpolicella into three parts: the historical part, called “Valpolicella Classica”, the Valpantena valley in the middle and the eastern part called “Valpolicella Doc” or “Big Valpolicella”, because its extension is bigger. In all of these more than 2 hundred wineries are found; most of them are family-run, in nice buildings more or less old, but some of them are quite interesting because they are hosted in ancient manors…".

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Amarone della Valpolicella, it's tasting time!

Amarone della Valpolicella, it's tasting time!

Amarone della Valpolicella is not your ideal wine when the temperature rises, but is perfect when outside the frost covers the fields. Thus, if you are going to buy a good bottle of Amarone, maybe this is the right moment to do it, because in this second half of January there are two important events in Verona: "Amarone in Villa" and "Anteprima Amarone DOCG". Both are good opportunities to taste many different bottles of Amarone della Valpolicella, made by almost every producer of Valpolicella...

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Recioto della Valpolicella: long life to the King!

Recioto della Valpolicella: long life to the King!

There is a new book dedicated to the Recioto della Valpolicella. Recioto was well before Amarone. As many wine lovers know, Amarone della Valpolicella originally was a Recioto (the traditional sweet wine from dried red grapes), totally fermented. 

Recioto is the father of Amarone della Valpolicella. Its origin. A wine that deserves much more attention and success than actually has, but we cannot complain the consumers about this, because the most of them never tasted a Recioto della Valpolicella - a good one, I mean. It is tricky to make a real good Recioto, and it's quite rare to find one, but we are pretty sure that it's all a matter of market. Nowadays the wine producers in Valpolicella are not so willing to produce Recioto, because it's difficult  to make, people don't ask for it and it's expensive to communicate, to market and to sell...

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Valpolicella: the big deal and the new wave

Valpolicella: the big deal and the new wave
"Although many people all around the world love Amarone, often they really have no idea where it comes from. And - sadly - Valpolicella’s producers don’t seem to do much to inform them. It needs an effective strategy of “geographic” communication of this part of Verona province before speaking about grapes or technique"...
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Harvest 2014 in Valpolicella: how did it go?

Harvest 2014 in Valpolicella: how did it go?

It has been a difficult and stressful harvest, a real challenge for the most producers, and if you ask anyone in Valpolicella, you’ll be replied that nobody remembers a vintage like this.

Now the harvest is over, so let’s try to summarize a few objective facts.

The 2014 vintage started very early: the early stages of germination were 15 days in advance of the media. Up to June everything was fine, but afterwards the temperatures dropped; July and August were cold and rainy.

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Amarone and Valpolicella Superiore Masterclass: we did it

Amarone and Valpolicella Superiore Masterclass: we did it

We did it.

Our first international tasting, the "Rare and Unusual Amarone and Valpolicella Superiore Masterclass" was truly successful. The eight wineries which decided to share with us the uncommon adventure of a "different way" to approach Valpolicella through its valleys, grapes, wines and styles, met in Montreux a selected and really interested (and interesting) group of people...

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Amarone and Valpolicella Superiore Masterclass: some feedbacks

Here you can find some comments to the wines we introduced in our Masterclass in Montreux. Amarone is an impressive wine for everybody's approaching it for the first time, of course, and Valpolicella Superiore is an elegant and fine wine that worths be rediscovered.

Thanks to Shirley Chen, Per Karlsson, Magnus Reuterdahl, Valeska Idarraga and Fernando Paredes for their kind collaboration.

Montreux Rare and Unusual Masterclass

Some images of the Amarone & Valpolicella Masterclass - to browse this gallery click on the image and go to Ricardo Bernardo's link

Some images of the Amarone & Valpolicella Masterclass - to browse this gallery click on the image and go to Ricardo Bernardo's link

Back from the DWCC - Digital Wine Communications Conference, we got a good success with the "Rare and Unusual Masterclass" dedicated to our "different approach" to Valpolicella wine region and its wines. In Montreux we presented 16 different wines produced by 8 wineries based all over the wine region.

By now, enjoy the pictures above, courtesy of our good friend Ricardo Bernardo.