Wine description

The Terre di Leone's Amarone della Valpolicella Classico is made with a blend of 40% Corvina, 30% Corvinone, 20% Rondinella, 10% Oseleta grapes, coming from the vineyards in Marano di Valpolicella and Fumane. Amarone comes from the best grapes, from the essence of the vine.

Tasting Notes

Intense garnet red color; intense, spicy and delicate aromas; the tasting shows complexity, a full-bodied wine, persistent with velvety fruity notes.

Vinification

Handmade harvest in with subsequent drying for about 120/140 days. The grapes are destemmed and not pressed, only worked by gravity. Cold maceration in stainless steel vats for 10-14 days and fermentation at a controlled temperature.

Ageing

Aging in French oak barrels of 25HL for about 30 months and then in a Burgundy bottle for at least 12 months.