Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG 2017
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Roccolo Grassi’s Amarone della Valpolicella is a wine of great structure, softness, balance, finesse, and complexity. The tannins are sweet and appreciable, offering good length and depth. This fine wine has an intense ruby-red color and a bouquet that includes hints of cherry, red berries, plum, spice, tobacco, and herbs. On the palate, the flavors are intricate and fine, becoming more defined with time.
Bottle: 750ml
Vintage: 2017
Alcohol: 16,5%
Grapes: 60% Corvina Veronese, 20% Corvinone, 15% Rondinella, and 5% Croatina
Ageing: The wine is then aged for 26 months, with 60% of the wine aged in French oak barriques of 225 liters (of which 20% are new) and 40% aged in oak casks of 25hl.
Aromas: a bouquet that includes hints of cherry, red berries, plum, spice, tobacco, and herbs.
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Vintage 2017
Stars from the Consorzio Tutela Vini Valpolicella, for Amarone della Valpolicella
A very good year. Hot and dry, with an early harvest of sweet, deeply coloured grapes.
A hot, dry year with an early harvest and grapes rich in sugar and colour.
Little rain fell from the winter onward. Late frost in April damaged a small area near San Martino Buon Albergo. June to August were hot, at times with drought and some sunburn in mid June. Hail in late August and early September, mostly in Valpantena and the east, hurt quality rather than quantity. Corvina was picked in the first week of September, about ten days earlier than in 2016, with high sugar, low malic acid and very good colour potential. The heat kept most diseases away.
Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG 2017 by Roccolo Grassi
Roccolo Grassi’s Amarone della Valpolicella is made with a blend of four grape varieties, with 60% Corvina Veronese, 20% Corvinone, 15% Rondinella, and 5% Croatina. The wine is produced from grapes grown in a 12-hectare vineyard, of which 4 hectares are used for the production of Amarone. The vineyard is located at an altitude of 200-250 meters above sea level and has a south-eastern exposure. The soil is of volcanic-basaltic origin, which gives the wine its unique character.
The grapes are hand-harvested in late September and left to dry naturally with the help of fans when needed. The drying process takes place on plateaux, and the grapes are crushed during the first week of December. The fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks, with a cold maceration for 6-7 days, followed by a warming phase to initiate the yeast fermentation. The temperature is kept at a maximum of 24°C during fermentation, which lasts for about 30 days, during which daily remontages and pumpovers are performed. The malolactic fermentation occurs naturally in wood.
The wine is then aged for 26 months, with 60% of the wine aged in French oak barriques of 225 liters (of which 20% are new) and 40% aged in oak casks of 25hl. After this, the wine is bottled and aged for a further 24 months. This extended aging process contributes to the wine’s complexity and depth, resulting in a wine that is both rich and elegant, with a perfect balance of fruit, tannins, and acidity. Whether enjoyed now or cellared for future enjoyment, Roccolo Grassi’s Amarone is sure to impress.
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Young and dynamic in the Veneto wine scene, “Roccolo Grassi” is a winery that was established at the end of the 20th century, in 1996 to be precise, in Mezzane di Sotto, a strip of land located halfway between the Valpolicella and Soave regions.
Bruno Sartori began making wine in the 1970s, but it was with the arrival of his son Marco first, and then his daughter Francesca, that the winery changed direction, setting a course radically focused on precision in the pursuit of wines that are clean and complex.
A family-run business, today the Roccolo Grassi winery counts a total of 14 hectares of vineyards, with a limited production of just a few thousand bottles each year. The philosophy is firmly rooted in quality, thanks to meticulous and attentive care of the vineyards and a winemaking process aimed solely at preserving the raw material, with great precision and purity.
Among the rows, the rhythms of nature are fully respected, and with extreme and rigorous attention, in full respect of the environment and ecosystem, yields per vine are kept low. Thus, harvest after harvest, they gather pure, refined, and concentrated grapes in every organoleptic nuance.
In the cellar, never forgetting the region’s deep-rooted traditions, every step of the production process is designed to enhance and highlight everything that the season and terroir have expressed through the fruit. In this way, simply excellent wines come to life.
