Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG “Case Vecie” 2018
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Wine Description
Case Vecie is Brigaldara's high hill Amarone, grown at altitude above Grezzana in the Valpantena, where slow, even ripening and a late harvest set it apart from valley floor wines. The 2018 blend is Corvina 39%, Corvinone 30% and Rondinella 31%; picked late, the grapes dry through the coldest part of the year, a long, slow appassimento, then the wine ages four years, two in small barrels and two in large casks.
At 16.5% it is intense yet lifted: dried cranberry, kirsch and figs in syrup with brown spices and mountain herbs on the nose, then cinnamon, pepper, tobacco and potpourri over young, chewy but polished tannins. It rewards patience, and two hours of air now. Serve at 18 °C with roast venison, braised beef cheeks, risotto all'Amarone or well aged cheeses; it is also a wine to sit with slowly after the meal.
Winery
Brigaldara has been in the Cesari family since 1928, centered on a historic estate at San Floriano in the Valpolicella Classica with additional vineyards in the Marcellise and Illasi valleys. Under Stefano Cesari and now his son Antonio, the house earned its reputation for Amarone, including the celebrated Case Vecie from high vineyards, while keeping the everyday wines serious: the Valpolicella, the ripasso Il Vegro and a small Recioto all show the same clean, classically Veronese hand.
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