Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Classico 2020
Wine Description
Nicolis makes its Amarone della Valpolicella Classico the patient way, from hillside fruit around San Pietro in Cariano in the Classica zone. As is traditional for the appellation, ripe Corvina and its Veronese partners spend the autumn drying on racks, concentrating sugar and aroma, then ferment slowly to full dryness before a long rest in casks.
The estate's own notes point to dried fruit and jam deepened by walnut husk and leather, and that is how it drinks: dark cherry preserve, fig, sweet spice and a savoury, gently austere finish that keeps the richness in check. The 2020 is a young Amarone, generous already and set to reward a decade of cellaring. Decant it for an hour and serve at 18 °C with braised beef, pastissada de caval, roast duck or aged Monte Veronese; in Venice it partners fegato alla veneziana without blinking. A serious Amarone that stays a dinner wine.
Winery
Nicolis is a family estate in San Pietro in Cariano, in the heart of the Valpolicella Classica, founded in 1951 by Angelo Nicolis and his wife Natalia. Today the third generation, Angelo and Sofia, works alongside their father Giuseppe across 49 hectares of estate vineyards farmed with attention to soil health and low impact methods. The house style aims for balance between freshness and structure, running from the everyday Valpolicella Classico through the Seccal ripasso and the Testal rosso to Amarone and the single vineyard Riserva Ambrosan.
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