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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It'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 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 MoreIn the last weeks some important facts occurred in Valpolicella. Here we report the main three:
E. & J. Gallo Winery (Gallo) is the new distributor for Allegrini's wines
Cav. G.B.Bertani is now Bertani Domains: a new important group was born
A new "visitor centre" for Masi Agricola Company
Just the day before the official opening of Anteprima Amarone 2010, the Villa de Winckels Hotel Restaurant hosted its traditional edition of “Amarone in Villa”, a big tasting with the most important wineries in Valpolicella.
The event was also the occasion to organize - thanks to the collaboration of Wine Meridian, a new wine magazine online, - an unusual vertical tasting of Amarone della Valpolicella from many different wine producers: from 2003 till 1960, going back in the time.
For any wine lover, this was a must, because it’s really tough to attend to this kind of tasting, I mean, with very old bottles…
Are you wondering why?
Well, likely there is more than one reason, but IMHO the main two are the following...
Read MoreDuring the last weekend, Verona was the stage for the annual "Anteprima Amarone" event, organized by the Consorzio Tutela Vini Valpolicella (the official association of Valpolicella producers) and dedicated to introducing Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG 2010 vintage to the wine world. And the first thing you have to note is the DOCG acronym, it indicates that starting from this vintage Amarone is "Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita", or "Appellation Controlled and Guaranteed", a higher level of certification with respect to the DOC you were used to...
Read MoreWe receive this press release from Cantina Valpolicella Negrar, and the news is:
Read More"The United Kingdom’s independent International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC), one of the world’s most prestigious drinks events, has awarded the coveted Best Italian Wine Producer of the Year trophy to the Negrar (Verona) cooperative winery".
Italy desperately needs Masters of Wine. After ignoring for decades the importance of this respected institution (for Italian brands' awareness and trade), the Italian wine industry took recently the initiative to search for candidates able to compete to enter in the restricted group of international Masters of Wine: actually they are 312 from 24 countries, only Pierpaolo Petrassi represents Italians in this group (he lives and works in UK).
This 2014 will be a key year when, from 15 to 18 May 2014, delegates from all over the world will be gathering in Florence for the Institute of Masters of Wine's 8th Symposium.
And, coming to our more close interest, under the initiative of Istituto del Vino Italiano di Qualità Grandi Marchi, which brings together 19 Italian wineries (see the list below), and with the partnership of the Institute of Masters of Wine itself, Valpolicella will be the next place to welcome their joined activities: the Foresteria Serego Alighieri (in Gargagnago, near Sant’Ambrogio di Valpolicella) to host the working sessions from March 7th to 9th that act as the introduction to the strict programme of studies for the title of Master of Wine.
If you have the right qualifications and you are interested to try, or simply you want more details, please read the official press release hereafter.
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