2007 Giacomo Montresor Amarone della Valpolicella

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 88 points

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  7/23/2017 - Endodr Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This Amarone is "old world" styled with a deep garnet color. The wine has a nose of damp earth, florals, and stewed red fruit. It tastes of cherries, figs, raisins, vanilla, dusty gravel, and oak (aged in Slvonian and French oak barrels). The wine is full bodied, nicely textured, and has crisp acidity balanced with a hint of sweetness towards it's finish. Initially, heat from it's alcohol content (15 % ABV) was overwhelming and distracting, but this resolved with a longer time in the decanter.
  
  This Amarone is sold in an interesting frosted bottle which caught my eye at Total. The producer's web site claims that this is traditional, although I could not find any further info on this. Other interesting tidbits that I found:
  
  Montresor had a prominent important historical position during Cardinal Richelieu days and he took part to the political events as prime counsellor of Duke d'Orleans, the cousin of the king. He supported a moderate and less conservative monarchy. In the sixteenth century, a branch of the family moved from Château Montresor, in the Loire valley, to Verona, Italy. There, they acquired lands, estates, and started the culture of the vines.
  When Giacomo Montresor, in the second half of the 19th century, started to sell the wines he produced under his family name, he could not imagine that one century later his wines would have reached the four cardinal points of the world. Today his successors carry on this tradition which associates the agricultural activity to selecting, aging, bottling, and distributing operations.
  The Montresor family is mentioned in the famous tale of Edgar A. Poe, "The Amontillado Cask", where a member of the Montresor family is described as premium wine connoisseur with an excellent palate.

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  12/22/2013 - czar33 wrote: 89 Points

  Excellent! Typé, prêt à boire, encore du fruit, un très bon vin, agréable.

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  2/4/2011 - Sid_Mac wrote: 89 Points

  Very enjoyable; decant for at least an hour.

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