An "historical", unusual vertical tasting

An "historical", unusual vertical tasting

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...

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