Library release in Valpolicella

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The estate's Riserva, garnet red with an intense, ethereal and spiced nose and a minimum of four years of ageing behind it, from the double-selected bunches of the Monte Cà Bianca site.

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A cellar selection rather than a single site: after about four years of maturation the casks that show the longest ageing potential are isolated and left longer, so every Riserva is unique to its vintage and to the vineyards behind it.

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The estate's longest-aged Amarone, first made in 2016, drawn from hand-selected fruit and given the extended ageing the Riserva category requires.

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A Valpolicella Superiore held ten years in 1000-litre oak vats before release, with clear spice and small undergrowth fruits on the nose and a palate that has kept remarkable freshness through the long ageing.

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Made only in the vintages when optimal ripeness coincides with the acidity that guarantees longevity. What strikes the estate about the wine is its elegance and finesse.

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A deep ruby red of important structure and a fullness of aroma the estate calls immediately recognisable for complexity and elegance, with a share of Oseleta giving forest-fruit aromatics and pronounced tannin.

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Intense and extraordinarily powerful, still rich in tannin, with black cherry on the nose and a warm, strong, full and velvety palate carrying an agreeably bitter edge, elegant and well balanced.

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Octavius is the Fumanelli Riserva, blending Corvina and Corvinone with Rondinella and a tenth of other native Valpolicella varieties, and given the longest cask time of the range.

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Impenetrable dark red, intense with over-ripe red fruit, cinnamon and vanilla, then warm and persuasive on the palate with cooked fruit, sweet spices and cloves and a long, dry finish.

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The estate's Riserva, from grapes dried until they lose at least thirty-five percent of their weight, pressed in January and fermented cool at 13 to 17 degrees with a long maceration, then given at least two years across tonneau and large cask.

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The estate's attempt to vinify Amarone in the most natural and traditional way possible: a hundred days of drying, hand destemming and crushing, indigenous-yeast fermentation in an oak truncated-cone vat with daily hand punch-downs, then five years in untoasted 700-litre oak with no filtration and no fining.

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Intense garnet, rich and marked with dried flowers and fruit, balsamic herbs, cloves, tobacco, cocoa and leather, then full, structured, velvety and persistent, with what the estate calls a three-dimensional progression on the palate.

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The barrique-only Riserva, deep ruby tending to garnet with very clean scents of berry fruit, jam and cherries in spirit, delivering vanilla, spice, liquorice and bitter almond.

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Dark garnet red, with sour cherries in spirit, graphite and chocolate on the nose, then excellent freshness and a decisive but velvety tannin, from a September hand selection into crates and six years in the estate cellar.

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Intense garnet with orange reflections, an intense and elegant nose of cherry and plum in spirit with ethereal notes and a spiced finish of chocolate, cinnamon and tobacco, then a balanced, dry palate with elegant, soft tannins that the estate says never feels excessive despite the alcohol.

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Impenetrable garnet, intense in red fruit under spirit amalgamated with noble and persistent spice, and of notable gustatory concentration on the palate, persistent and balanced by an elegant, velvety tannin.