“Fieramonte” Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva DOCG 2018

Allegrini | Veneto
Allegrini Wines S.r.l. | Via Giare 5 | IT 37022 Fumane

03014018 · 0,75 l · 372,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping9 units available
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Giovanni Allegrini used to describe his vineyard in a way that no Oenologist would ever use: "The morning sun, dispelling the shadows of the night, awakens nature and gently caresses the grapes." He was proud of this slope – “The wild mountain” – because its eastern exposure ensures that the first light of day hits the grapes before the heat arrives. A consistent ripening, subtle and patient, like everything that aims to be truly good. Fieramonte is the estate’s highest and most demanding vineyard. Corvina Veronese provides the structure and red fruit. Corvinone the body. Rondinella the freshness. And Oseleta – one of the rarest, oldest Veronese grape varieties – almost forgotten, preserved by Allegrini – adds a dark, tannic complexity that no other wine from the appellation possesses to the same degree.

The grapes are harvested by hand in the second week of September and carefully selected. Then comes the Fruttaio: five months of drying, until 40 to 50 per cent of the weight has evaporated. What remains is a concentration of a magnitude that is almost unimaginable – an extract of 40.8 grams per Liters in the 2018 vintage, an alcohol content of 16.5%, balanced by an acidity of 7.30 grams, which preserves the wine’s astonishing freshness. In the cellar: 48 months in small French oak barriques. Then six months in large Slavonian oak casks. Then over two years of bottle ageing. Only then does the Fieramonte leave the estate – as a wine that has waited more than seven years for its first moment in the glass.

2018 was a year of exceptional concentration and depth in the Valpolicella Classica region: warm summer months, well-distributed rainfall in the spring, healthy grapes, and late ripening on the high-altitude Fieramonte slope. Deep, almost black garnet red with ruby highlights. The bouquet reveals concentrated dark cherry and plum, chocolate, tobacco, leather, dried violets, spices, and a long hint of balsam that unfolds in layers. On the palate, it is both immense and elegant – the tannins dense and ripe, the acidity precise and supportive, the final long, warm and with a persistence that knows no haste. Fieramonte – every year, the impossible is achieved from this vineyard. SUPERIORE.DE