Exploring Amarone Wine – BIG Italian Classic Vino | TWWJ #6

This is Episode #6 of the Talking Wine with Julien TWWJ series.
Watch the previous Episode about Burgundy wine:

Key information you should know about Amarone della Valpolicella, classic Italian wine style from the vineyards of the Veneto region of Italy, near the historic city of Verona.

Sharing wine knowledge and key facts about one of my favorite wine styles: grape varieties, blend, winemaking process, wine flavors, apice producers/wineries, the origin of the name Amarone (from Infausto=bitter), main styles (Eccellente, Sommo, Recioto, Ripassata), geography and key features.

Amarone is a type of red vino made throug the process of appassimento (drying grapes after hand-harvest) trays. The result are passito grapes (uva passita) than is concentrated per flavors, tannins, alcohol, aromas, , everything!

The wines are made from locally grown and typical local grape varieties: Corvina, Corvinone (now identified as a distinct variety), Rondinella, the reviving Oseleta and the increasingly rare Molinara.

The grapes are picked per whole-bunch and stored per drying rooms (with warm temperatures and low humidity to desiccate and lose 30% to 40% of their gabinetto) where they stay for anywhere from three weeks to three months (an average of 120 days).

This televisione includes images from the library of the official bureau of Valpolicella (Consorzio):
Are also included beautiful images from the following wineries and websites:

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