Corvina Veronese 45%, Rondinella 5%, Oseleta 5%
The Allegrini family has been in the region since the 16th Century, and has been involved in winegrowing for much of that time. However, the business as it is known today was founded in the mid-20th Century by Giovanni Allegrini, who began to build the estate’s reputation for fine wines in the 1960s and 70s.
Today, all of Allegrini’s wines are made from estate-grown fruit from 90 hectares (222 acres) of vineyard in the communes of Sant’Ambrogio and Fumane, where the southeast-facing slopes and chalk soils are well-suited to winegrowing. Allegrini’s reputation is largely due to the high quality of its Amarone wines, but it also makes wines outside the classic DOC appellations of the region. These wines include several premium single-vineyard cuvées like La Grola, a varietal Corvina, La Poja, which adds Syrah to the typical Valpolicella blend and Palazzo della Torre, which adds Sangiovese.
TASTING NOTE
Allegrini Amarone della Valpolicella leads with aromas of ripe and rich black cherry and damson along with notes of prune and raisin. The fruit-led bouquet confirms this wine’s relative youth, although some aromas of development are in evidence with coffee, dark chocolate and clove notes also in evidence. The tannins are notable but gummy in the mouth, with plenty of acidity also suggesting that this Amarone della Valpolicella will further develop with cellaring should you so desire.
ROBERT PARKER – 92POINTS
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