Bold in Valpolicella

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Allegrini's estate Amarone Classico blends Corvina and Corvinone in nearly equal measure with a small percentage of Oseleta; the result is a polished, internationally styled Amarone with plush dried-fruit concentration and a refined tannin frame.

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A 100% Corvina IGT aged in French barriques rather than dried: La Poja demonstrates the varietal's structure and ageing potential when treated outside the appassimento framework, producing a powerful, savoury red that rivals Amarone in complexity.

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Intense ruby with garnet reflections, complex in raisin, blackberry, blueberry and plum with tobacco, black pepper, liquorice and coffee, then dry, warm and soft with evident but pleasant tannins, a well-turned robust mouth and balsamic and cherry-chocolate notes on a spiced finish. Austere, rigid and deep.

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Deep ruby red with a broad, well-defined nose and a decisive but elegant taste, robust and intense in structure with excellent drinkability, a wine the estate says wins on character and balance.

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Garnet red with an intense, ethereal and spiced nose, from bunches chosen twice over, first in the vineyard for ripeness and loose berries, then in the fruttaio for integrity and health.

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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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Deep ruby red with garnet reflections, intense and spiced on the nose and dry and soft in the mouth, made from both indigenous and non-indigenous varieties in the estate's vineyards.

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Brilliant red, with clean red cherry and berry aromas lifted by a floral touch, then an initially sweet, glyceric mouthfeel followed by a slightly bitter note and a notable tannic bite over lively red-fruit flavours.

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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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Il Vegro is Brigaldara's prestige single-vineyard Amarone from the Il Vegro parcel; higher Oseleta concentration and extended ageing in a mix of small and large casks produce a richer, spicier expression than the estate Classico, with excellent concentration and structure.

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Intense garnet red, with intense and complex scents of cherry and red fruits well married to pleasant spiced notes from the wood, and a round, structured palate carrying what the estate calls an extraordinary freshness and the potential for long evolution.

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Intense ruby red with garnet reflections, with the typical cherry and small red fruit scents alongside redcurrant conserve, well married to pleasant spiced notes from the wood ageing, and a soft palate balanced between freshness and tannic weave.

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Domaso is the cooperative's flagship single-vineyard Amarone from the 14-hectare Maternigo hill parcel, showing appreciably greater concentration and mineral precision than the estate-level wine; the earthy, tobacco-cedar style reflects the Maternigo terroir's calcareous character.

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Garnet red, intensely scented of sour cherry preserved in spirit, wild berries and spice, with a full, dry, velvety mouth built on three months of drying and two years in wood.

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The estate's Riserva, garnet red with an intense nose of cooked fruit, dried prunes, sour cherries in spirit, tobacco and assorted spice including ginger, from a small, well-exposed cru at Castelrotto.

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Made by refermenting the Valpolicella Classico on Amarone skins still wet with wine, a red of strong, decisive character with an intense bouquet of cherry, plum and conserve and notable staying power.

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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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Costa Arente's flagship expression of the Valpantena, hand-picked and hand-selected at Grezzana and first made in 2013.

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The second of Costa Arente's three Valpantena expressions, first made in 2016, combining the estate's traditional harvesting with modern cellar technique.

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A great concentration of scents recalling the cherry typical of the Marano valley, then an enveloping palate with a long and persistent aftertaste, from grapes that lose about forty percent of their weight in the drying room.

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A heavily concentrated, oak-driven Amarone: tiny yields, four-month drying, four years in small French oak. Layers of dried fruit, dark chocolate and iron. Built for multi-decade cellaring.

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Dal Forno's entry into the Valpolicella range already shows the estate's signature intensity: deeply coloured, barrique-aged and concentrated beyond what the DOC classification implies.

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Ruby red with violet reflections, with the territory clearly marked on the nose in marasca, plum and undergrowth fruit alongside consistently refined notes of cocoa and tobacco, then a full mouth of great structure, velvet and roundness with a persistent close.

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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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Made from the best hand-picked bunches dried three to four months in plateaux, which raises the sugar concentration by twenty-five to thirty percent, then fermented about twenty-five to thirty days and aged two to three years in barrique.

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The estate's named Amarone, from the best bunches hand-picked and dried three to four months, pressed in January, fermented twenty-five to thirty days and matured in barrique for two to three years.

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Quintarelli's Bordeaux varieties treated to the Valpolicella appassimento method: dried Cabernet and Merlot producing extraordinary density, graphite-inflected fruit and a long finish.

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A blend of local Corvina with international Cabernet in the Quintarelli style: concentrated, savoury and structured, with the Bordeaux varieties adding colour and spine to the Valpolicella base.

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An intense, complex Amarone of traditional school: fruit conserve and small red fruits with the pleasantly vegetal, aromatic-herb notes the estate credits to altitude, then chocolate, black pepper and vanilla from the wood, sapid with soft balanced tannin.

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Intense and extraordinarily powerful, with a concentrate of sour cherry conserve, dense and harmonious in the mouth, rich and dry with tannins built for a long development in bottle.

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Extremely powerful and intense with a concentrated flavour of black cherry conserve, dense and very mature yet still velvety, full and dry, with the tannin load for a long life in bottle.

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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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A pre-dried Superiore built on sour cherry and blackberry conserve, plum and withered violet, following through into caramel, white pepper, cocoa, walnut and vanilla from two years in French tonneaux.

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The estate says refermenting on Amarone pomace extracts the typical Amarone characters into the wine: dried-fruit scent, alcohol and structure, giving a Ripasso suited to medium-term ageing.

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Le Salette's estate Amarone Classico, from the high-altitude Fumane vineyards farmed by Monica Scamperle, shows the distinctive freshness and orange-peel note that characterise the estate's high-elevation fruit; a more approachable entry to the Le Salette style than the Pergole Vece.

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The Squarano estate's Amarone, from a Corvina and Corvinone base with Rondinella, dried in the traditional appassimento and matured in the family's historic cellars.

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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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Dry, rich, velvety, complex and elegant: intense ruby, wild berries, conserve and vanilla on the nose, then rich, warm and intense cooked fruit with cocoa and vanilla on the finish.

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Masi's entry-level Classico Amarone is the house's most widely distributed wine and among the most accessible classic-zone bottlings, balancing dried-cherry concentration with a restrained herbaceous character and good structure.

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Mazzano is Masi's most powerful and concentrated single-vineyard Amarone, from the high-altitude Mazzano hill in the S. Ambrogio zone. More opulent and riper than Campolongo, with a chocolatey, rich palate and remarkable ageing potential.

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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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Masi's Toar is a 30% Oseleta-dominant Veronese IGT that deliberately showcases the rarely-used indigenous variety; partial drying of the Oseleta component adds concentration and the grape's characteristic dark spice and iron mineral character.

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Ruby red, recalling cherry, tobacco, aromatic herbs and spice, and closing on freshness with balsamic and minty notes and a long persistence.

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A Demeter-certified Amarone from grapes that lose forty percent of their weight in the drying room, soft pressed in February and fermented at a natural 13 to 17 degrees with a long maceration for maximum fruit extraction.

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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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Ambrosan is the single-parcel selection from Nicolis's oldest vines on the Villa Girardi estate, given an extra year in large Slavonian casks compared to the estate Amarone; a more concentrated and austere expression of tobacco-cedar style with excellent ageing potential.

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Deep ruby red, intense and elegant with ripe plum and cherry and spice, then full-bodied, balanced, enveloping and of excellent persistence.

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Intense ruby red, decisive on the nose with cherry in spirit, bitter almond and leather, then round and structured with soft tannins and excellent persistence.

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A deep garnet Amarone with an intense nose of black cherries and cherries carrying the notes of the drying process, spicy dark chocolate and tobacco, plus goudron from ageing, and a generous, velvety, highly extracted palate marked by an intense mineral hint.

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The Riserva from the Le Balze cru: deep garnet, intense in ripe red fruit and jam with the marks of appassimento, spice, coffee, dark chocolate, tobacco and goudron, and a generous, velvety, sapid palate closing on almond and cherry jam.

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Deep ruby tending to garnet, with very clean scents of berry fruit, jam and cherries in spirit, and flavours of vanilla, spice, liquorice and bitter almonds.

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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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Intense ruby red with scents of undergrowth, sour cherries and plums, and a robust, complex body that the estate says feeds back into the aromatics.

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Force and balance together: ruby with garnet reflections, sour cherry, plum and spice on the nose, complex, enveloping and dry on the palate, harmonious and elegant and made to age.

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Produced at 500 metres on the soil of very ancient disintegrating lavas in the sub-zone the estate calls Purano, a dry wine that takes its name from the bitter vein that characterises it, full-bodied, alcoholic and of great flavour.

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Ruby red, with hints of red fruit and raspberry and the black pepper the estate credits to Molinara, plus toast, caramel and vanilla from the French oak, and a robust flavour with a full, persistent body.

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Deep ruby, with cherry conserve, vanilla, liquorice and tobacco on the nose and a warm, soft, intensely tannic palate, from organically farmed Corvina and Rondinella dried in a fruttaio at low temperature and controlled humidity.

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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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Tommasi's estate Amarone Classico represents the fourth-generation family's traditional approach: a high proportion of Corvinone adds floral lift to the dried-cherry concentration while three years in large casks develops structure.

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Ca' Florian is Tommasi's single-vineyard flagship Amarone from the old Ca' Florian hillside in the Classico zone, showing dense, chocolatey concentration with elegant tannin structure and long mineral finish.

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A garnet red of good intensity born from the union of Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara with Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese, whose dominant notes the estate gives as marasca cherry in spirit, liquorice and spice.

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Garnet red, intense with the characteristic cherry note made complex by spice, and elegantly tannic on the palate, well balanced and powerful.

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An impenetrable garnet, intense in red fruit under spirit of cherry and plum well amalgamated with noble spiced notes, and on the palate a wine of real fabric with decisive, elegant tannin, balanced and persistent.

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Intense ruby tending to garnet with age, intense in red fruit of cherry and redcurrant with spice, well balanced with dense, amalgamated tannins of excellent structure.

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Full-bodied, intense and elegant, holding the character of grapes picked at altitude: aromatic herbs and wild flowers, dry and carried by real power.

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Zyme's Kairos is a modern interpretation of Classico Amarone; former Quintarelli cellarmaster Celestino Gaspari applies small French oak ageing to produce a polished, concentrated expression that bridges traditional intensity with contemporary oak integration.

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A 15-variety blend in the Veronese IGT classification, Harlequin is Gaspari's conceptual statement: every grape variety grown across Zyme's vineyards co-fermented after partial drying, producing a complex, layered wine with extraordinary aromatic diversity.