Tenuta Santa Maria

Amarone Classico Riserva

Amarone Classico Riserva

Amarone Classico Riserva Tenuta Santa Maria
  • 75% Corvina, 10% Rondinella and 15% Corvinone
  • All from the Tenuta Santa Maria, a 20-hectare belted clos in Negrar
  • The grapes are hand harvested left to dry for 4/5 months
  • In January after losing 25%/30% of their weight, the raisin-like grapes are pressed and fermented for 25/30 days at controlled temperatures with daily pumping over
  • After 48 months of aging in large cask and tonneaux the wine is bottled
  • Rested 6 months in bottle before release
  • 2000 cases produced annually

Info

Vintage:
2017
Country:
Italy
Region:
Veneto
Appellation:
Amarone
Variety:
Corvina
Color:
Red

Sizes Available

Full Bottle IT-TSM-40-17 12/750ml
Other IT-TSM-40-17Z 12/750ml

Press & Reviews

Decanter
Score
93
Date
2023-12-20
"With headquarters at Arbizzano near the bottom of the Negrar valley, the Bertani family produce a wide range of Veronese reds from the walled vineyards surrounding the magnificent, neoclassical, 18th century Villa Mosconi. Their Amarone is made as a Riserva, with five years of oak ageing. The wine shows a ripe and chocolatey nose of surprising freshness, and the palate lives up to this initial promise: balanced and firm with juicy fruit flavours. Plenty of life left ahead of it"
James Suckling
Score
93
Date
2023-12-28
"Dried red berries and plenty of oak spice here. Full- to medium-bodied with a good balance of fruit and oak, a solid tannin framework and a long, savory finish. This is built to age, but is approachable even now. Drink or hold."
Vinous
Score
93
Date
2024-02-29
"The 2017 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva is youthfully understated, wafting up with a nuanced blend of dried black cherries, incense and spice. This flows across the palate with silky textures and ripe red and blue fruits as zesty acidity adds energy, and masses of bitter dark chocolate emerge toward the close. Remarkably fresh all the way through, this finishes long, staining and pleasantly tense, with a coating of fine tannins."

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