Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG “Pietro Dal Cero” 2019
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Wine Description
Pietro dal Cero is the Amarone that Ca' dei Frati, the great Lugana house, makes in memory of the man who built the modern estate. The fruit grows in the Luxinum vineyard at Pian di Castagnè, in the hills east of Verona, on clay, shingle and limestone; the 2019 blend is Corvina 70%, Corvinone 20%, Rondinella 5% and Croatina 5%, aged 24 months in barriques, 12 months in steel and 24 in bottle, finishing at 16% alcohol.
It is an Amarone of freshness as much as power: sour cherry and dark fruit with cocoa, chewing tobacco and peppery spice, lively acidity and a slightly bitter, grassy edge that keeps it long and composed. Young now, it has the makings of decades. Decant it for an hour and serve at 16 to 18 °C with slow cooked meat stews, ragù based dishes, game or pecorino; in Venice, fegato alla veneziana suits it perfectly.
Winery
Ca' dei Frati is the Dal Cero family estate at Lugana di Sirmione, on the southern shore of Lake Garda, where Felice Dal Cero settled in 1939. The house made its name with Lugana and helped establish the local DOC in 1969, building one of the appellation's reference cellars. Today Pietro's children Igino, Gian Franco and Anna Maria carry the estate forward, and its red ambition is concentrated in a single Amarone that bears their father's name, made from family vineyards in the hills east of Verona where the Dal Cero story began.
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