Description
Amarone Classico della Valpolicella “Opere San Pietro” DOC
TASTING NOTE
Color: deep ruby red with reddish purple highlights. Nose: rich and complex, with notes of cocoa, chocolate, raisins, ripe plums and black cherries. Flavor: its taste profile is refined, harmonious and compact. It is complex, with dominant notes of raisins, plums and hints of vanilla. Evolved and persistent.
GRAPES
Corvina Veronese 70%, Rondinella 25%, Corvinone 5%.
ORIGIN
The Opere San Pietro vineyard.
VINIFICATION and MATURATION
After the grapes have been dried, they are pressed and then the alcoholic fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats, for a period of about a month. Subsequently the Amarone is left to mature for at least two and a half years in 35 hl Slavonian oak casks and for 6 months in tonneaux.
ALCOHOL
15% vol.
SERVING TEMPERATURE
18-20°C
SERVING SUGGESTIONS
This is a wine for serving on special occasions, with game, red meat and mature cheeses.
BOTTLE SIZE
750 ml