This is a smokey and savory expression from Valpolicella in Northeast Italy. The 2013 Amarone della Valpolicella Famiglia Pasqua is a very attractive wine that offers ample power and intensity along the way. This is a big-boned effort with thick layers of dark fruit, prune, raisin and blackberry preserves that peel back with slow layering. Exotic spice and moist chewing tobacco appear on the close.

Grilled herb and tar notes underscore the sappy black cherry and currant fruit, spiced orange and fig cake flavors of this rich, medium- to full-bodied red. Balanced and fresh, with creamy tannins firming the finish. Drink now through 2024. 5,000 cases made, 1,800 cases imported.??–AN??Region: Italy / Amarone della Valpolicella Select to Add