Wines

Amarone della Valpolicella Case Vecie Docg 2016

Amarone Case Vecie borrows its name from the homonymous vineyard located in Grezzana - Valpantena. An extraordinary plot of land planted with vines where altitude and exposition enable the grapes to undergo a slow and constant ripening, even during the hardest years. The late harvesting period enables us to put the grapes to dry in a colder period of the year, undergoing a slower and longer drying process. Amarone Case Vecie is a wine that is designed to enhance the natural characteristics of a high altitude climate: a true Amarone "Vigne Alte" - a high-hill Amarone.

Technical Specifications
Grape variety	Corvina 39%, Corvinone 30%, Rondinella 31%
Vineyard	Grezzana - Case Vecie (450 mt/a.s.l., south-easterly exposition)
Training system	Guyot
Planted area	9 ha - 4,000 vines/ha
Year of planting	1996/2009
Harvest	Grapes are hand-harvested during the first half of October
Winemaking	The grapes are selected in the vineyard, placed in crates and left to dry in the drying loft. During fermentation, the wine is always in contact with the grape skins. It is pumped over twice a day with a delestage half way through fermentation, favouring colour extraction.
Aging	2 years in small wooden barrels and 2 years in large wooden barrels
pH	3.47
Dry extract	35.1 g/L
Sugar residue	2.5 g/L
Alcohol content	16.5%
Tasting notes	Deep ruby. Very ripe, almost roasted nose of dried cranberry, kirsch, brown spices, figs macerated in sugar syrup and botanical herbs. Then fresher and suave, with clean and precise flavours of cinnamon, pepper, tobacco and pot pourri. Finishes long with young, chewy but polished tannins.

Brigaldara Azienda Agricola

The name Brigaldara appeared for the first time in the deed archives in 1260 and referred to a group of farmhouses, the villa and the surrounding countryside. The Cesari family purchased the villa and the surrounding land in 1929. At that time, the area was not used only for the cultivation of grapes and olives but was also used for fruit and cereals. In the 1960s and 1970s, with the end of crop-sharing, the land was reconverted to specialise in the cultivation of vines and olives.

Veneto

Veneto’s wines are some of Italy’s best known exports – the names of Soave, Bardolino and Valpolicella have long been associated with eminently drinkable Italian wines. Yet there is a lot more to this region, and indeed a lot more behind the names of its best known wines. With 26 DOCs and 13 DOCGs, Venice’s region has a substantial production of quality wine, as well as well-priced easy-drinking reds and whites bottled as IGTs. One of Italy’s most interesting wines is a product of these three grapes, the deep, dark Amarone della Valpolicella, recently promoted to DOCG status. Made from partly dried grapes in the vineyards north of Verona, it is a structured, complex and heady wine capable of great age that has gained a cult following among the wine industry’s elite.

In Treviso, north of Venice, are the towns of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene where the popular bubbly Prosecco is made using the Charmat method where the second fermentation takes place in large tanks.

In 2009 Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene has become DOCG, encouraging reduced yields in the vineyards. Prosecco is also produced in the neighbouring Montello e Colli Asolani zone. White wines from Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon and Chardonnay are gaining in popularity and recent versions are responding well to oak ageing.