Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Classico Riserva “Sergio Zenato” 2009
€274.00
Only 2 bottles left, rare vintage
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Falstaff 94Gambero Rosso 3 Bicchieri
Critic scores for the 2009 vintage
Bottle: 750ml
Vintage: 2009
Alcohol: 16,5%
Grapes: Corvina 80%, rondinella 10%, oseleta and croatina 10%
Ageing: 4 years in large format barrel before at least a year in bottle.
Aromas: Intense fruit-forward style, depths of raisins and amarena, with edges of cedar wood and black spice.
A five star vintage by our own chart, and Zenato's Riserva to match. Heft, freshness, and real class.
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Vintage 2009
Stars from the Consorzio Tutela Vini Valpolicella, for Amarone della Valpolicella
An excellent year, one of the best of its decade. A hot summer and a small harvest of top grapes.
One of the best years of the decade: a smaller crop of excellent quality.
A cold autumn and winter with plenty of rain refilled the soils. Budbreak came about 7 days earlier than in 2008, and flowering very early. Heavy rain and some hail in early July did no real damage. August was torrid, comparable only to 2003. September brought wide swings between day and night and very little rain, ideal for picking, which began on 9 September.
Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Classico Riserva “Sergio Zenato” 2009 by Zenato Winery
Zenato only release their riserva in exceptional years, and 2009 was rated by us as no less than a five-star vintage, with perfect winter-to-spring weather and managing to overcome a slightly overhot summer to produce wines of exceptional heft, refreshing acidity and real ageability and class. A must-have for fans of the classics.
Assemblage: Corvina 80%, rondinella 10%, oseleta and croatina 10%.
Winemaking: Hand-harvesting of carefully selected bunches is followed by a full 4 months of appassimento. A slow fermentation of 15-20 days on the skins following crushing, after which the wine is aged for at least 4 years in large-format oak botti and at least a year in bottle before release.
Alcohol: 16,5%
Colour: Solid ruby red, tending towards garnet.
Aroma: Intense fruit-forward style, depths of raisins and amarena, with edges of cedar wood and black spice.
Palate: Full-structured, with ample softness and subtlety, and marked by a balancing freshness. Astonishingly well integrated for a wine of such size.
Ageing: This one has decades in it yet.
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Zenato stands on 95 hectares split between two renowned areas: white-wine Lugana on the southern shore of Lake Garda and red-wine Valpolicella Classica in the Costalunga hills of Sant’Ambrogio. Sergio Zenato set the course in 1960, pairing modern techniques with a devotion to local grapes, Trebbiano di Lugana for fresh, mineral whites and Corvina, Rondinella, plus a touch of Oseleta for structured Valpolicella and Amarone.
The Santa Cristina estate in San Benedetto di Lugana yields expressive whites shaped by the lake’s mild climate and clay-rich soils. Forty kilometres east, Costalunga’s dry-stone terraces and well-drained marl give the family’s reds depth and length. Precise vineyard mapping, row orientation for optimum sunlight, and careful water management underscore a hands-on approach first outlined by Sergio and continued by his wife Carla and their children Alberto and Nadia.
Beyond Veneto, Zenato cultivates 3.8 hectares along the Via Bolgherese in Tuscany. Here Podere Prospero offers a personal take on Bolgheri DOC, blending Cabernet and Merlot grown on sandy, sea-breeze-cooled soils.
Across all sites, low-impact farming, selective harvesting, and measured cellar work aim to translate each plot’s character into the glass, an approach shaped by more than six decades of family vision and continuity.
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