Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG 2018
Wine Description
Ferragù's Amarone comes from old family vines in the Val d'Illasi, the eastern Veronese valley where the estate farms about eight hectares of reds. Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella and Oseleta are dried for around 70 days, fermented slowly, then aged three years in small French and American oak with a further year in glass before release, the estate's standard route for this wine.
Expect power with polish: dark dried cherry and plum wrapped in vanilla and black pepper spice, dense tannins and a long, warm, savoury finish. The 2018 is the youngest face of this wine, already generous with air and set to reward patience over the next decade. Decant it for an hour and serve at 18 °C with venison, roasts, braised or stewed meats and aged cheeses; a Venetian pairing of fegato alla veneziana with polenta suits its weight perfectly. Keep a glass back for after dinner, when it shows its quietest side.
Winery
Carlo Ferragù farms about eight hectares of red varieties in the Val d'Illasi, east of Verona, at roughly 240 metres, with a further hectare of olive trees. He runs the estate with his brothers Ornello and Angelo from a cellar that pairs an old Romanesque stone farmhouse with modern equipment, and the vines behind the Amarone average around 55 years of age. Production is small and pointed at reds of scale: a Valpolicella Superiore, the estate Amarone and an Amarone Riserva grown on a single hectare at Cellore d'Illasi.
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