Just the day before the official opening of Anteprima Amarone 2010, the Villa de Winckels Hotel Restaurant hosted its traditional edition of “Amarone in Villa”, a big tasting with the most important wineries in Valpolicella.

The event was also the occasion to organize - thanks to the collaboration of Wine Meridian, a new wine magazine online, - an unusual vertical tasting of Amarone della Valpolicella from many different wine producers: from 2003 till 1960, going back in the time.

For any wine lover, this was a must, because it’s really tough to attend to this kind of tasting, I mean, with very old bottles… 

Are you wondering why?

Well, likely there is more than one reason, but IMHO the main two are the following...