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Amarone Classico Allegrini Veneto Italy 2005
2005 Valpolicella Blend
- Colour
- Red
- Grape
- Valpolicella Blend
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Amarone
- Year
- 2005
- Producer
- Allegrini
(incl. VAT)
Description
Allegrini Amarone Classico is a wonderful fusion of purity with balance and the traditional power and concentration of Amarone wines.
Made from the traditional Corvina and Rondinella grapes, the wine has a brilliant ruby colour and a vibrant perfume of black cherries and raisins. Amarone is made by using the thousand year-old technique of Appassimento - after being harvested, the grapes are left to dry for three to four months, which intensifies the flavour. Amarone is an extremely important wine in Italian viticulture, - a unique symbol of the Valpolicella region. In the course of time Allegrini has fine tuned it's production, with the aim to best preserve the characteristics of the fruit and has established itself as one of the truest interpreters of the classic style.
Amarone can age for 20 years.
Allegrini are among the elite of the world's best producers of red wines and this outstanding Amarone is beyond question, one of the best wines from the vintage.
An International Wine Challenge 2009 Gold Medal Winner.
> Meet The Winemaker - A Tribute To Giovanni Allegrini
The Allegrini Farm is located in Fumane di Valpolicella. For generations, the family has lived in this small, but important locality of the Valpolicella Classica, handing down the activity of wine growing and the vinification of grapes from generation to generation.
Since the XVI century, the members of the family have been among the protagonists of Valpolicella history. The document attesting to the fact that Allegrino Allegrini succeeded in purchasing the right to exploit several "fountains" or "springs" in Mazzurega, a suburb of Fumane, to facilitate irrigation of his property, is dated 1557.
Between 1616 and 1630, as testified to by the acts and transcriptions of the time, the Allegrini family was counted among the families in Fumane who owned the most land, which ensured their pre-eminence in local society.
Giovanni Allegrini, who was extremely proud, belonged to the land of Valpolicella and dedicated his intelligence and great energy to it and was the head of the new generation.
Giovanni was among the first winegrowers to question local practices, revolutionising consolidated habits and speaking clearly about quality. He succeeded in adding oenological know-how to selecting grapes, thus creating a virtuous circle that produced some of the finest wines of the Valpolicella in the Sixties and Seventies of the last century.
After his early death in 1983, his three children inherited the company: Walter, responsible for conducting the winegrowing activity, Franco, an oenologist and Marilisa, responsible for marketing. Within a relatively short period of time, they brought the company to a position of leadership in international winegrowing.
The Allegrini Farm in its present-day form may rightfully be considered the result of the intelligence and industrious nature of Giovanni Allegrini, a simple and spontaneous man, who knew how to love the land of his ancestors and make it bear fruit. He gave life to a solid, efficient and innovative agricultural enterprise. A descendant of a family that has always been tied to agriculture and farming traditions, he began his career at the age of twelve, when his father initiated him to the production of wine. Over the years, he perfected this art, with a consuming passion. During his life, which was strictly tied to the life of the company, he did everything he could to achieve and produce the best wines. He introduced his wines in Italy and abroad, which became known for the high standard of quality in their production, making the Allegrini company, a point of reference for businesses and consumers of every culture.
His last project, which he unfortunately did not have the time to see completely finished, was the replanting of a vineyard of the most qualified and prestigious holding of the Historical Valpolicella, the splendid Grola, a hillside location, which had been abandoned at the beginning of the century; he brought it back to productive live, according to the most advanced techniques, and made it suitable for the use of new machinery.
He was called "the Spiderman of casks"; in fact, he used to jump like a spider from one gigantic and precious cask to another in his wine cellar, proudly having people taste the wines and asking them for critique and tasting impressions.
The lifestyle, history and culture of Giovanni are still today the keys to understand the philosophy and perhaps the reasons behind the success of the Allegrini Company.
