Needs plenty of time to decant, but this is lucious, tobacco, cinammon, with the nice true cinnamon flavor. Not my favorite amarone, but good.

This has a floral and almost meaty mineral character against a background of raisiny fruit. Medium- to full-bodied, with fine tannins and a firm, if rather simple, finish. Drink now. 950 cases made. -JC Score: 87 Release Price: $90 Country: Italy Region: Veneto Issue: May 15, 2008 My wine is a 2004 -

Clear. Deep Ruby. Clean. Medium to pronounced nose of cooked red berries, cherries and raisons. Hints of herbs and sweet spices. Some chocolate. Still developing. Dry. Medium plus acidity. Full bodied. High intensity. High alcohol. More red fruits on the palate. Medium finish. High priced. Fine quality. Can drink now but can wait for 3-5 years.

Licorice, tar and leather. Mild fruit. delicious

The aroma is somewhat rich, a bit alcoholic. The aroma got a little bit of apple scent, also some raisins. On the palate, the wine is also a bit rich and heavy, but not too much depth, but got good and decent drinking flavors. I am drinking this all night and although I have no deep desire to want to keep on drinking this wine, but would not turn it away if it is presented to me, and I am almost done with 65% of it. Composed of Corvina Veronese, Rondinella, Molinara, which are dried on mats for 5 months by natural air. The wine is fermented for 1 month in stainless steel tanks, then it is aged for 3 years in Slavonian oak barrels.

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Not quite as complex as other Amarones but outstanding nonetheless. Drink now.

had this wine without food.. (what too pair this with?) palate opened up with wet forest, leather, raw meat. very rough. taste was dry. the appasimato method gives a very concentraded feeling. lots of berries, chocolat and flesh. interresting, undefined.

Rich, powerful, tasty, full, great.

I have tasted this wine on a couple of occations, and it is so far one of my favourite Amarones. While having the sweetish and warm raisiny taste elements typical for this style, this is not so huge and overwhelming that it masks the fresher fruits. The wine is not as sweet and jammy as some Amarones, and it retains pleasant refreshing acids. This also makes it go well with some foods, unlike some "bigger" Amarones. Last we had it with capercaille, and the lean meat with it's sweet, complex extremely "gamy" taste went well with this wine.

drank at Zibbibo in Florence. Very powerful and incredibly big and smooth at the same time, but very sweet on the attack. It may need more time to aerate as it became more even as the bottle was consumed. Its easy to see why people see this wine as so exceptional, but the sweetness put us off.

This was a totally different experience from my last tasting. Did not have the power or richness. Still it was very nice, well balanced but blind, I would not have known it. 90

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rich, but not complex. must say a dissapointing amarone. a bit short.