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Red Bottle overall rating:
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A complex and fruity red. Full-body, good
bouquet, long finish. Best served at a temperature
of 18-20° with game, roast, meats, aged
cheese. |
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Corvina veronese produces a bright red wine,
with a marked taste of red cherry. It is a grape
that is perfectly adapt to bear the long drying
process which characterizes Amarone.
Rondinella produces a bright red wine, with a clear
suggestions of cherry and berry fruits, with firm
acidity.
Molinara produces a light wine, pink, fruity and
of medium durability. It is recommended for the
production of vintage Valpolicella Classico.
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Picture
on top: LOTTO
St Lucy before the Judge - 1532 - Pinacoteca
Civica, Iesi |
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A
bit of history:
LORENZO LOTTO
(1480- 1556) |
"The
picture shows the central panel of the Altarpiece
of St Lucy. The three panels of the predella are
also in the Pinacoteca Civica. The altarpiece was
commissioned by the Confraternity of Santa Lucia
of Iesi in 1523, however, the execution started
only in 1528 and ended only in 1532. The altarpiece
was placed in the church of St Florian at Iesi,
and it was transferred to the museum in 1861."
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Italian painter. According to Vasari, he trained
with Giorgione and Titian in the studio of Giovanni
Bellini, but he worked many places apart from Venice,
had an idiosyncratic style, and stand somewhat apart
from the central Venetian tradition. In 1508-12
he was in Rome, then lived mainly in Bergamo until
1526, when he returned to Venice. From 153o he worked
mainly in various towns in the Marches, and in 1554,
when he was partially blind, he became a lay brother
at the monastery at Loreto, where he died.
His rootless existence
reflects his anxious, difficult temperament and
his work is extremely uneven. It draws on a wide
variety of sources, from Northern Europe as well
as Italy, but at the same time shows acute freshness
of observation. He is now perhaps best known for
his portraits, in which he often conveys a mood
of psychological unrest (Young Man in his Study,
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), but he worked
mainly as a religious painter. An outstanding
example of how original and poetic his altarpieces
could be is The Annunciation in the church of
Sta Maria sopra Mercanti at Recanati - a bizarre
and captivating work full of brilliant colours
and lighting effects, odd expressions and poses,
and unusual and beautifully painted details, including
a startled cat.
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Tips
& Tricks:
WINEMAKING
(Find more on our web site...) |
Refractometer.
An instrument
used in winemaking to measure the sugar
content of grapes and must. A refractometer,
which can be used right in the vineyard,
works by placing a drop of juice between
the refractometer's prisms and reading the
angle at which the light bends. The angle
will vary depending on the juice's sugar
content. This refractometer reading is described
in terms of brix in the United States, baumé
in France, and oechsle in Germany. |
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'Amarone della Valpolicella'
is the unquestioned king of the wines of Verona.
It has been called "Amarone", from the adjective
"amaro" that means "bitter".
The unique and unmistakable feature of this wine is
its production by original grapes of Valpolicella
and the process of vinification: grapes are dried
till February - March; it is a good example of dry
red wine refined in wooden barrels. Amarone is a wine
of some importance, since it is the product of excellent
and exclusive climate, vines and special techniques.
The 'Acinatico' is dry
ruby red flavorful wine. High in alcohol
and full-bodied, with a powerful taste and bouquet,
it's a rare example of a text-book Amarone made with
heart and experience.
| Region: |
VENETO
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| Label: |
AMARONE DELLA VALPOLICELLA
CLASSICO ACINATICO
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| Winery: |
Stefano Accordini
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| Alcoholic vol.: |
16%
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| Residual
sugar: |
5,5 g/l
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| Acids: |
6,50 g/l (tartaric)
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| Grape varieties: |
Corvina Veronese 75%, Rondinella
20% , Molinara 5%
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| Production: |
10.000 bottles/year
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| Aging: |
24 months in barriques and
8 months in bottle
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| Bottle: |
750 ml bottle (1500 ml available)
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Loris
says: |
Unique
and powerful...
This Amarone is really full-bodied,
with a lot of fruit, intense and complex bouquet.
A pleasure on the nose and palate. A superb red.
Enjoy it with roasts and flavorful dishes. It is
also an exceptional meditation wine.
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Marco
says: |
Seductive
and intense...
Seductive, full-bodied and complex.
I feel a strong bouquet. It is fruity, with bitter
chocolate notes, cherries, black licorice flavors
and a long finish. Good for the table and the cellar
too. |
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R.Parker
says: |
Robert
Parker : 94 points
"1999 Amarone Acinatico -
The dry, deep ruby/purple-colored impressive 1999
Amarone Acinatico boasts abundant quantities of
chocolate, mocha, and espresso along with tell-tale
sweet cherry jam notes. Full-bodied, muscular, and
heady with great opulence as well as purity, and
a long, 40+ second finish, this is a spectacular
Amarone to drink over the next 10-15 years." |
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The
wine :
AMARONE
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Amarone is one of the fullest, oldest
and longest-lived dry red wines of Italy,
made with a variable mix of indigenous grapes
that undergo a natural drying process in ventilated
under-roof spaces of the old cellars of Valpolicella
(Valpolicella being the hilly wine-growing
area of Amarone, placed a few miles North
of the city of Verona, in the region of Veneto,
northern Italy).
Amarone is more and more becoming an acquired
taste for international wine lovers and wine
collectors and success is proved by an impressive
rise of the total amount of bottles produced
during the past five years (2.5 millions of
bottles in 1995 / 6 millions of bottles in
2000).
Considering that this is a wine of extraordinary
enological parameters (very high dry extract,
concentrated acidity, abundant presence of
glucose, fructose, glycerine, resveratrol
and alcohol), that it can be hardly compared
to any other wine in the world, and that it
is the product of a 2000-years-long local
tradition (dating back to the age of the Roman
Empire), such an overwhelming success on international
markets appears well deserved. In one word,
Amarone is a unique experience of taste, for
both professional wine-tasters and simple
wine lovers. In contrast with other great
italian red wines suitable for ageing, its
rounded tannins and juicy fruitiness allow
it to be appreciated also when young, although
it is a magnificent wine for ageing.
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