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Amarone della Valpolicella Fieramonte Riserva 2015 75cl

Amarone della Valpolicella | Veneto | Italy
CHF 198.90
Critics scores
96 Robert Parker
The Allegrini 2016 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Fieramonte is skewed tight and buttoned up in terms of its intensity and its consistency. This balance is quite an achievement, and of course, we have the fabulous 2016 vintage to celebrate here. A year with classic weather patterns and no major challenges, the wine offers black cherry, plum, spice, leather and cured tobacco. The results are modern and contemporary with smooth tannins and a generous, full-weight finish. I love the seamless quality of this cellar-worthy wine. The alcohol is high at 16.5%, and only 5,000 bottles were made (hitting the market in fall 2023).
96 Vinous
95 James Suckling
A cooler year in a recent context. This cuvee (single vineyard) was made from 1965 to 1985, before the vineyard was infected with esca. The vineyard was then rejuvenated and the Fieramonte was revived from 2011. A rich, avuncular, throaty wine after four-years in 225L barriques. The grapes are dried for 130-140 days which is very long, even in the context of the region. Loads of residual sugar at the initial, spontaneous fermentation, before inoculation drags it to a palate-staining dryness. A big wine loaded with extract, dark fruits, menthol and anise. Very impressive. Drink or hold.
95 James Suckling
Plush and opulent, with a creamy chocolate edge to the concentrated minty blackberries, dark walnuts, mussels and pine cones. Rich, broad and full-bodied with lots of oak now, but still very fresh and tangy. Lots of fine-grained tannins tuck up the dark fruit and the sweet spices into a lengthy finish. Needs some time for the oak to settle more. Drink from 2024.
94 Wine Spectator
A dark, rich red, with flashes of dark chocolate and tarry smoke adding fine detail to the core of cherry compote and soft fig flavors. Shows sculpted tannins that are firm and dense, wrapped in a plushly creamy texture that carries appealing accents of balsamico herbs, sandalwood and singed orange peel through the long finish. Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella and Oseleta. Drink now through 2035. 1,000 cases made, 50 cases imported.
Producer
Allegrini
In an appellation with over 6,000 hectares of vines, Allegrini is one of Valpolicella’s top producers. Located in Italy’s north east, the Allegrini property comprises of 90 hectares of vineyards, right in the center of the region. The Allegrini family has been been making wines with genuine character, tradition, and spirited innovation since the 16th century. The estate has been very successful in the introduction of new ideas: from the use of barriques to age their Amarone, to creating a single-vineyard wine, like the French cru with pure Corvina. Until recently, vintner Franco Allegrini, was the driving force at the winery, but today his lovely sister, Marilisa has become the face of the brand. Thanks to her diligent, globe-trotting publicity efforts, she has easily risen to the elite top of ambassadors coming from Valpolicella. The company has in turn also become the largest and one of the most highly-regarded, not to mention, award-winning Italian wineries in the world. While the estate is best known from their Amarone, they offer a wide range of labels, from the traditional Vapolicella styles, to the new-age, almost experimental wines.