Full-bodied, with sweet and soft notes of dried fruit, spices and tobacco, it is a wine to be paid attention to and enjoyed at the end of dinner, as well as paired with the highest-quality meats and aged cheeses.
This is their classic Amarone made from Corvina, Rondinella and Corvinone grapes grown on terraces at 150-450 meters of altitude. The fruit is harvested by hand and left to dry out until the end of the year to concentrate the sugars and flavors in the grapes. The young wine is then aged in oak barrels for 18 months followed by a further 6 months in the bottle.
Winemaker : Daniele Accordini
Winemaker : Daniele Accordini
Cantina Valpolicella Negrar is one of the region’s most important wineries since it was here in 1939 that the first ever Amarone wine was bottled. The winery was founded in 1933 by seven local grape growing families keen to pool their resources.
Cellar master Adelino Lucchesi was in charge of taking care of the wines maturing in the winery over the winter when he accidentally allowed a batch of Recioto dessert wine to overferment. As luck would have it, this new style of wine proved extremely popular and was soon copied by the Cantina’s neighbors.
Today the winery has over 200 members and remains a benchmark producer of both Recioto and Amarone.
Cellar master Adelino Lucchesi was in charge of taking care of the wines maturing in the winery over the winter when he accidentally allowed a batch of Recioto dessert wine to overferment. As luck would have it, this new style of wine proved extremely popular and was soon copied by the Cantina’s neighbors.
Today the winery has over 200 members and remains a benchmark producer of both Recioto and Amarone.
