2017 L'Arco Amarone Classico della Valpolicella

About The Wine

Amarone is one of the most prestigious red wines of Italy.

The Amarone style was developed as Valpolicella’s wine producers were looking for a way way to increase the body, complexity and alcohol of their wines, as the local varieties were always considered a bit ‘weak’; the solution was the ‘appassimento’, naturally air drying. This Amarone comes from the best grapes, carefully selected and then placed in ‘cassette’ where to dry naturally for about 120 days. After the ‘appassimento’ the grapes are pressed, fermented and aged in medium to large format barrels; not all the barrels will make it through the long ageing as only the best will be Amarone. An extraordinary wine, tied to Valpolicella’s traditions, traditionally off-dry, beautiful with age.

Decanting this wine is recommended.

Service tips: Serve it at 18 C with stews and roasts, game and seasoned cheeses.

About L'Arco

The Estate takes its name from a stone arch, called “Arco di Giove”, well in sight on the road to Negrar (one of the seven historic Valpolicella counties) and near the farmhouse where the Fedrigo family resided until a few years ago. The arch, dating from 1500/1600, was one of a series of seven arches along the hillside path near S. Vito di Negrar.

It is a name that awakens memories of the past for Luca Fedrigo, which he has wanted to pass into the wines produced by him; Luca, has worked for many years in a prestigious Valpolicella cellar, which grew his experience and gratitude. It presents like a young establishment but with an ancient hearth, dynamic and well-versed, able to offer a product that is unique for its origins and which retains all the traditions tied to Valpolicella.

Snapshot

Region: Veneto

Country: Italy

Vintage: 2017

Alcohol: 16.5%

Closure: Cork

Grapes: Corvina, Rondinella, Molinara