2004 Corte Sant'Alda Amarone Della Valpolicella DOC
Name:
Corte Sant'Alda Amarone Della Valpolicella DOC - 2004
Where it's from:
>Italy
>Veneto
>Valpolicella
Price per case:
£350.01
Bottle size:
75 cl
Bottles per case:
6
Style:
Powerful Reds
Grapes:
Corvina / Rondinella
Description:
Marinella Camerani is on a mission to create authentic wines that are strongly connected to the local terroir. Manipulation and intervention are reduced to a minimum, in keeping with the ideal natural balance which is the principle that rules the estate. Continuous research and experimenting, both in the vineyard and in the winery, rediscovering old abandoned practices, techniques that have been replaced by modernity for its own sake, are the daily enterprise of Marinella and her family.
Amarone made from half-shrivelled grapes to produce a wine which falls firmly into the 'impegnativo' category, this is beauty and the beast rolled into one: chewy plums, bitter cherries, mocha coffee and what Oz Clarke describes rather well as 'bruised sourness.'
The grapes are sourced from various sites with an average altitude of 300 metres and dried in a south-facing breeze-cooled drying loft in small wooden crates, eventually pressed towards the end of February. The cold winter temperatures, the long period of fermentation on the skins (over a month) and the use of wood during vinification encourage the development of the wine's unique aromas.
