Brigaldara - Amarone della Valpolicella DOC Cavolo (half bottle)
Brigaldara is one of the best producers of Amarone, a wine that is now beginning to be regarded as one of Italy’s jewels. Made from dried grapes in the Valpolicella region north of Verona and with a full, dry flavour. An enormous, muscular wine with tones of damsons and herbs that is best drunk with game or strongly flavoured cheese.
Amarone and Recioto are the 2 most important wines of Valpolicella, they are well known all over the world for their unique characteristics. Both wines are red, made from raised Appassimento (dried-out concentrated) grapes, the difference is Amarone is dry & Recioto is sweet.
In Amarone all the natural grape sugar is transformed into alcohol by the yeast, so it is a dry wine; in Recioto alcoholic fermentation is stopped in the middle to leave some natural sugars & a lower alcohol content, so is a sweet dessert wine. Recioto was already known in Roman times, Amarone has a recent history: a wine maker forgot to stop the fermentation in a Recioto barrel.
Country: Italy
Region: Amarone della Valpolicella
Grape: Corvina & Corvinone & Rondinella
Style: Red
Alcohol: %
Bottle size: 37.5cl
Other: Vegetarian
Amarone and Recioto are the 2 most important wines of Valpolicella, they are well known all over the world for their unique characteristics. Both wines are red, made from raised Appassimento (dried-out concentrated) grapes, the difference is Amarone is dry & Recioto is sweet.
In Amarone all the natural grape sugar is transformed into alcohol by the yeast, so it is a dry wine; in Recioto alcoholic fermentation is stopped in the middle to leave some natural sugars & a lower alcohol content, so is a sweet dessert wine. Recioto was already known in Roman times, Amarone has a recent history: a wine maker forgot to stop the fermentation in a Recioto barrel.
Well-made Amarone is one of Italy's glories; it is a rich, deep flavoured wine with a dry, bitter finish on the palate. It is made by selecting the ripest bunches of the grapes, then drying them for several months on wooden slats or trays and finally pressing and fermenting them. The effect of drying is to reduce the water content so that the wine produced has more concentration of flavour. Historically this passito wine was made as a sweet wine or Recioto then in the 1930s a producer inadvertently fermented the wine dry, so Amarone was born. It is a fairly recent wine in the sense that it was first recorded as being sold in 1938 although it was only in the 1950’s that Amarone started to become popular. Brigaldara is a founder member of the Families of Amarone – a group of 12 producing families dedicated to maintain high quality Amarone.