Cabernet Sauvignon Veneto IGT 2020
Wine Description
Marion's Cabernet Sauvignon makes a persuasive case that this grape belongs in the hills east of Verona, where limestone soils and a Veronese method give it a shape no other region manages.
It is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon handled in two lots: part of the fruit dries for 40 days in airy lofts while the rest ripens further on the vine, and the two wines then age separately for 30 months in 350 litre Slavonian oak barrels before blending.
The result is deep ruby with violet edges, wild berries and spice on the nose, and a palate where currant and dark plum meet firm but well knit tannins and a long, balanced finish, at 14.5%.
It drinks well on release and rewards a decade of patience.
Serve at 18 °C, decanted for an hour, with red meats, game or aged cheeses; a thick veal chop with rosemary is squarely in its comfort zone.
Winery
Marion is the Campedelli family's estate at San Martino Buon Albergo, in the Marcellise valley on the quieter eastern side of the Valpolicella hills. Stefano and Nicoletta Campedelli revived the property around Villa Marion, once the residence of Count Marioni, in the 1980s, and today work limestone rich soils that lend the reds an unusual mineral backbone. The house method is patient: a share of the grapes is often dried, fermentations are natural, and the wines rest around thirty months in cask, built to improve in bottle for two decades. Teroldego and Cabernet Sauvignon stand proudly beside the Valpolicella classics.
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