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Traditional dried-grape wines

Valpolicella Amarone wine

Amarone wine: characteristics, identity, and territory

Amarone wine is made from grapes left to dry slowly, a process that concentrates aromas, sugars and extractive compounds, resulting in a wine with great structure and depth. Its key traits – intensity, complexity, and softness – are a direct reflection of the territory and the production method, which combines tradition with technical expertise. Amarone wine offers a rich profile, with notes that evolve over time, expressing the identity of Valpolicella in a bold and immediate way. It is considered one of the most representative wines of the region, harmoniously combining elegance and power.

How to pair Valpolicella Amarone wine

Amarone is a significant wine, ideal for pairing with rich and flavourful dishes. It pairs perfectly with red meats, braised dishes, game, aged cheeses, and blue cheeses. It can also be enjoyed on its own as a contemplative wine. Its broad structure and warmth make it perfect for special dinners, convivial moments or a relaxing post-meal glass. Amarone wine invites calm and attention: savouring it slowly allows you to fully appreciate all its nuances during important occasions.

Venturini’s Amarone wines

Venturini’s Amarone wine interprets the Valpolicella tradition with precision and sensitivity, highlighting elegance, balance and aromatic depth. Each vintage is produced from carefully selected grapes and meticulously dried to create a wine that combines structure and finesse. Our labels reflect a clear identity, shaped by experience and respect for the land, representing the heart of our production dedicated to dried-grape wines.

Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG red wine

Traditional Amarone wine

Alcohol content: 16,50% Vol

Bottle size: 750 ml – 1500 ml

Description

Traditional Amarone presents a deep, luminous garnet-red colour, rich and concentrated. On the nose, sweet notes of violet and macerated cherry are intertwined with enticing spicy aromas of pepper and clove. The palate is full-bodied and warm, beautifully balanced by vibrant savouriness and firm tannins, delivering an elegant, highly enjoyable sip with lingering flavours of candied dark fruit.

The label depicts a fragment of a relief from an ancient Romanesque church near our winery, showing two winged lions guarding a wine amphora. Featuring it on our bottles is our way of sharing the culture and heritage of our land with the world.

La vendemmia manuale avviene nella seconda settimana di settembre.

Selected grape bunches are dried on trays until January, losing around 40% of their weight. They are then crushed and destemmed, followed by 45 days of maceration on the skins with daily pump-overs and fermentation between 10 °C and 20 °C. The wine is racked and transferred to oak, where it matures for 24 months, partly in large oak casks and partly in tonneaux. Finally, it is refined in bottle for six months after bottling.

This is an intense wine that calls for dishes capable of matching its bold flavour. It excels with long-aged cheeses and pairs beautifully with game, braised meats or richly prepared dishes. For a more adventurous pairing, try it with pork ribs in barbecue sauce.

Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG red wine

Campomasua

Alcohol content: 17,00% Vol

Bottle size: 750 ml

Description

Amarone Campomasua presents a deep, luminous garnet-red colour. On the nose, it begins with an austere, introspective character, dense and highly concentrated, gradually revealing its true nature. Sweet notes of dark berries, violet and rose petals, cocoa dust, plum and walnut emerge with time. On the palate, it is juicy, confident, flavourful, balanced and refined. Its extended ageing allows all of its components to integrate slowly and harmoniously.

Like the gnarled trunk of an old vine, steady and resilient, Amarone Campomasua evolves over the years, revealing new layers of complexity with time.

The grapes are harvested by hand in the first week of September.

The selected grapes undergo a drying process in crates (plateaux) until February, resulting in a 45% weight loss. This is followed by crushing and destemming. Maceration on the skins lasts for 45 days with daily pump-overs, and fermentation takes place at temperatures between 10°C and 20°C. After racking, the wine is transferred to wood, where it ages for 36 months (partly in oak barrels and partly in tonneaux). The process concludes with 6 months of bottle aging after bottling.

A wine that complements elaborately prepared dishes, yet thanks to its richness and depth, it is equally satisfying enjoyed on its own or paired with dark chocolate.

Amarone Riserva della Valpolicella Classico DOCG red wine

Amarone Riserva wine

Limited edition

Alcohol content: 17,50% Vol

Bottle size: 750 ml

Description

Amarone Riserva immediately reveals its remarkable concentration through its deep, dense colour. This is a wine shaped by time and long ageing, and for this reason it gradually unveils its true character only after a few minutes in the glass. Sweet fruit notes evoke dark cherries in spirit, carob, dried plum and wilted violet, followed by layers of spice such as nutmeg and clove, along with musky nuances and hints of forest floor.

On the palate it is enveloping and compelling, with great power held in perfect balance by exceptionally fine, almost imperceptible tannins. These allow savoury notes and sweet echoes of fruit to re-emerge in an extraordinarily long and persistent finish.

This is a wine to be enjoyed slowly, allowing it the time it needs to open and evolve in the glass. We love Amarone, and we created this Riserva with the aim of expressing the longevity and positive evolution of this great wine over the years.

Amarone Riserva is produced only in selected vintages and in very limited quantities, making it a wine reserved for your most special occasions. The grapes are harvested by hand in the second week of October.

The grapes are harvested by hand in the second week of September.

Selected grape bunches are dried on trays until January, with a weight loss of around 45%. They are then crushed and destemmed, followed by 45 days of maceration on the skins with daily pump-overs and fermentation at temperatures between 15 °C and 20 °C. After racking, the wine is transferred to oak, where it matures for five years, partly in Slavonian oak casks. The process is completed with a further 12 months of bottle ageing after bottling.

Amarone Riserva is a rare and prestigious wine, best opened and enjoyed on truly special occasions.

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