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Structure
Drinking window
Best 6 to 25 years from vintage.
vintage6 yrs25 yrs27 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
What it pairs with
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Braised beef
The concentration of a forty percent weight loss suits a long braise. -
Roast game
Oseleta in the blend gives the tannic grip that game needs. -
Aged cheese
Salt is the counterweight to almost sixteen percent alcohol.
History
Musella's Amarone was first made in 2006. The selected bunches are laid in a specially ventilated room to dry, losing forty percent of their original weight and concentrating sugars, aromatics and noble tannins, then soft pressed in February for a cool, long fermentation.
- 2006: First vintage of the Musella Amarone
Facts
- Producer
- Musella · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Corvinone (50%), Corvina (45%), Rondinella (5%), Oseleta (5%)
- Classification
- Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG
- Oak
- At least twenty-four months in 3500 and 5000 litre casks, then at least twelve months in tulip-shaped concrete tanks
- ABV
- 15.9%
- Price
- €55-90 at retail
- Drinking window
- 6-25 from vintage
- First vintage
- 2006
- Biodynamic
- Biodynamic Practicing
- Organic
- ORGANIC CERTIFIED
Frequently asked about Musella Amarone della Valpolicella
What grapes are in the Musella Amarone?
Corvinone 50 percent, Corvina 45 percent, Rondinella 5 percent and Oseleta 5 percent, according to the estate's technical sheet.
How long are the grapes dried?
Long enough to lose forty percent of their original weight in a specially ventilated drying room, with soft pressing in February and fermentation starting at a natural 13 to 17 degrees Celsius.
How is Musella Amarone aged?
At least twenty-four months in casks of 3500 and 5000 litres, then at least twelve months refining in tulip-shaped concrete tanks.
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