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...
Amarone 2010 Preview
During the last weekend, Verona was the stage for the annual "Anteprima Amarone" event, organized by the Consorzio Tutela Vini Valpolicella (the official association of Valpolicella producers) and dedicated to introducing Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG 2010 vintage to the wine world. And the first thing you have to note is the DOCG acronym, it indicates that starting from this vintage Amarone is "Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita", or "Appellation Controlled and Guaranteed", a higher level of certification with respect to the DOC you were used to...
PR: IWSC awards Cantina Valpolicella Negrar as best Italian producer 2013
We receive this press release from Cantina Valpolicella Negrar, and the news is:
"The United Kingdom’s independent International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC), one of the world’s most prestigious drinks events, has awarded the coveted Best Italian Wine Producer of the Year trophy to the Negrar (Verona) cooperative winery".
Valpolicella will host next Masters of Wine students selection
Italy desperately needs Masters of Wine. After ignoring for decades the importance of this respected institution (for Italian brands' awareness and trade), the Italian wine industry took recently the initiative to search for candidates able to compete to enter in the restricted group of international Masters of Wine: actually they are 312 from 24 countries, only Pierpaolo Petrassi represents Italians in this group (he lives and works in UK).
This 2014 will be a key year when, from 15 to 18 May 2014, delegates from all over the world will be gathering in Florence for the Institute of Masters of Wine's 8th Symposium.
And, coming to our more close interest, under the initiative of Istituto del Vino Italiano di Qualità Grandi Marchi, which brings together 19 Italian wineries (see the list below), and with the partnership of the Institute of Masters of Wine itself, Valpolicella will be the next place to welcome their joined activities: the Foresteria Serego Alighieri (in Gargagnago, near Sant’Ambrogio di Valpolicella) to host the working sessions from March 7th to 9th that act as the introduction to the strict programme of studies for the title of Master of Wine.
If you have the right qualifications and you are interested to try, or simply you want more details, please read the official press release hereafter.
Valpolicella wines on mainstream Italian wine guides (3)
October brings the end of most of the harvests in Italy and - as usual - brings also wine guides.
Here we have the results for Valpolicella wines as stated by two wine guides: the "ViniBuoni d'Italia" and "I Vini d'Italia 2014" (L'Espresso)
Valpolicella wines on mainstream Italian wine guides (2)
October brings the end of most of the harvests in Italy and - as usual - brings also wine guides.
Here we have the results for Valpolicella wines as stated by "Slow Wine 2014" - published by Slow Food - and "Tre Bicchieri 2014" - published by Gambero Rosso...