Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2016

The Amarone was born by mistake from a wine that had to be sweet and instead due to an uncontrolled fermentation, it was no longer sweet, but “bitter" (Amaro means bitter in Italian). Actually the Amarone has nothing bitter, it is a fruity, soft and vaguely sweetish wine. From an error the most loved and sought-after wine of the province of Verona was born; new tradition has begun. Fabiano’s Amarone Classico is part of this tradition; it comes from vineyards in the villages of San Pietro in Cariano and Negrar at altitudes of 190 and 370 meters. The soils are composed of the typical Veronese red stone, limestone and marl. The vines are trained with the traditional pergola system on terraces called "marogne".

The grapes are harvested by hand and put to dry for about 4 months. Only in the second half of January the dried grapes are pressed, after a partial destemming and fermentation takes place in steel vats with a 30-day maceration on the skins. Finally, the wine ages for 30 months in 40 hectoliter Slavonian oak barrels.