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Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva La Mattonara 2008 75cl

DOCG | Amarone della Valpolicella | Venetien | Italien
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2004 2008 2011
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98 Vinous
The 2008 Amarone della Valpolicella Riserva La Mattonara keeps you at the edge of the glass, as it opens up in layers, showing dried cherries, currants and hints of pine. Further coaxing brings forward savory smoke followed by crushed blackberries, cinnamon, clove and candied citrus. The textures are like pure silk, slowly draped across the palate with a polished sheen, leaving ripe red and black fruits, mocha, sweet herbs and autumnal spice. You can feel the weight, yet the 2008 remains remarkably balanced, vibrant and flat-out delicious, with a finish that never seems to end. The Riserva La Mattonara is produced through strict selection in the vineyards, followed by three months of air-drying, two months of maceration and nine years maturing in large Slavonian oak. In a word—Wow!
97 Robert Parker
This wine is seamless and fearless, and there's little else that really needs to be said about it, except that, at $850 per bottle, there's probably some more explaining to do. Packaged in a release of 4,500 heavy glass bottles, the Zýmè 2008 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva La Mattonara is a massive wine with wonderful exaggerations of ripe fruit, oak spice, dark aromas and thick texture. It all plays out beautifully in the end, and it will appeal to Amarone fans and other big-wine enthusiasts who are not given pause by its price tag or its 16% alcohol. The traditional blend sees Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella, Molinara, Oseleta and Croatina. There's nothing at all shy about this wine, whose name evokes the Italian word for "brick" or "hammer." Even that oversize and profoundly eco-unfriendly bottle could be used to hammer nails into a brick. Its character is dark, brooding and spicy, but the appassito fruit is impeccably balanced, period.
Hersteller
Zýmē
Zýmē ist für Valpolicella so unverzichtbar wie Hefe für die Vinifikation. Das Wort ist altgriechisch für “Hefe”, es steht aber für weit mehr als den Namen dieser Kellerei – es ist ein Symbol für die Naturliebe von Celestino Gaspari. Gaspari, der den Betrieb erst 2003 gründete, wuchs in der Weinbranche auf und arbeitete viele Jahre als beratender Önologe. Dieser begnadete Winzer mit seiner avantgardistischen Philosophie ist zu einem der bemerkenswertesten und markantesten Erzeuger in der Region geworden. Das Gut Zýmē liegt im Herzen des Gebiets Valpolicella Classica in einem uralten Sandsteinbruch. Die Weine, die hier entstehen, werden wegen ihrer nahtlosen Synthese der fünf Elemente der Weinerzeugung gerühmt – Erde, Sonne, Wasser, Rebe und Mensch. Jede Flasche ist eine Ikone der Synergie zwischen Natur und Geschichte.