Amarone della Valpolicella

Amarone della Valpolicella are red wines from the area just north ofVerona.

It is only relatively recently that this wine and the sweeter reciota have become quite fashionable and therefore quite expensive with the better wines costing in excess of £100.00 per bottle and sometimes even up to £500.00!

The wine is made using slightly dried grapes which are allowed to ‘mature’ in special drying sheds rather like tobacco leaves and the end result is a powerful concentrated wine but not usually at all sweet. It goes well with food which will be provided at this tasting because it is not really a wine to be drunk on its own.

We will taste about eight examples to attempt to demonstrate a cross section of the styles made by different houses.