Notes of ripe blackberries and plum skins with hints of dried herbs, ground cloves and undergrowth. Full-bodied, concentrated and compact, yet with a succulent, fruit-driven mid-palate. Juicy and supple on the finish. Drink or hold.

Pleasant spicy and nutty aromas blend into intense, prune-like fruit on the palate. This is full-bodied and very intense, with firm tannins and tangy dried-fruit and cedar flavors. Extremely youthful Amarone, which will need plenty of years to mellow and broaden. Yet, it’s fun to drink now in its fresh stage. Drink or hold.

A savory version, with generous green olive, tobacco, smoke and loamy earth notes, this is plush and creamy in texture, carrying juicy notes of sun-dried black cherry and date fruit. Moderate finish. Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella. Drink now through 2026. 5,000 cases made, 1,000 cases imported.??–AN??Region: Italy / Amarone della Valpolicella Select to Add

This is a blend of 70% Corvina, 20% Corvinone and 10% Rondinella from a dry vintage with fruit that has been submitted to the appassimento process. The 2018 Amarone della Valpolicella shows lots of sweet oak, toasted spice and barbecue smoke. The wine is very intense and alcoholic (with a 16% alcohol content), followed by syrupy-rich dark fruit flavors. This is a wine of ample muscle and brawn. 20,000 bottles were released.

The Monte Zovo 2016 Amarone della Valpolicella was born in a beautiful vintage, and the wine shows sharp contours and linearity as a result. However, we are talking about Amarone, so you can expect some lingering residual sugar and general softness to cushion the impact of all the air-dried fruit (and 16% alcohol content). The blend used here is 70% Corvina, 20% Corvinone and 10% Rondinella, and fruit comes from an eight-hectare site with calcareous marl soils. It ages in barrique for 24 months. The wine delivers a good amount of spice and smoke on the full-bodied finish. Production is 20,000 bottles.