Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Classico 2021
Wine Description
Zenato's Amarone della Valpolicella Classico is the estate's best known red, grown at the Costalunga vineyards above Sant'Ambrogio, in the heart of the Classica zone. The blend is Corvina 80% with Rondinella 10% and Oseleta and Croatina completing it; the grapes dry for about four months in ventilated lofts, concentrating sugar and aroma, then ferment slowly on the skins for 15 to 20 days before long aging in large oak casks.
The 2020 is full and dark, with morello cherry, prune, cocoa and sweet spice over ripe tannins, the light bitter almond twist typical of the appellation keeping the finish dry. It is already open and will hold for a decade or longer. Serve at 18 °C after an hour in the decanter with braised or roasted red meats, risotto all'Amarone as cooked in Verona, game birds, or aged cheeses to close the meal.
Winery
Zenato was founded in 1960 by Sergio and Carla Zenato at San Benedetto di Lugana, on the southern shore of Lake Garda, where Sergio did early, serious work with the native Trebbiano di Lugana grape. The family later added the Costalunga estate at Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, in the hills of the Classica zone, and it is from there that the Amarone, the Ripassa and the Corvina wines come. The second generation now runs the house, Nadia Zenato on the commercial side and her brother Alberto in production, farming some 95 hectares of family vineyards split between Lugana and the Valpolicella Classica.
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