Community Tasting Notes 13

• WineDoctors wrote: 90 points

  March 20, 2011 - this was a nice pizza wine: gruyere, broccoli rabe and carmelized onions. Not a big baby, no animale and certainly not fit for horsemeat, It was nice to enjoy a young, approachable amarone with proper attributes. Dark fruits, relaxed tannins, beautiful color.

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• curtispomeroy wrote: 91 points

  October 4, 2009 - Big, bold and spicy. A very nice amarone.

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• Giacomo wrote: 94 points

  August 30, 2009 - WOW, this wine was outstanding. The wine came with a tag written in Italian and English. Interestingly the Italian description suggested decanting for 2 hours. I was hestistant to decant a 9 year old wine for 2 hours but decided to try it. We tasted a sample upon opening. The wine is a beautiful deep red, opague. The nose on the sample was all earth and tabacco with very little fruit. The dinner was a rostisserie grilled prime rib and roasted fingerling potatoes. The wine was all velvet on the palate - from beginning to end with a small amount of tannin on the finish which was a pleasant contrast to the velvet. Surprisingly there was more fruit (plum, blackberry when we drank it, both on the nose and on the palate, than was in the sample. The velvet was so pleasant you wanted one taste after another. The wine was outstanding. What a shame that this is the only bottle. We paid $28 - what a steel. It has been years since we have had an Amarone. I remembered it as being a bit on the heavy side. This was simply delicious, big yes, not overly so, but the velvet was so nice.

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• Al-Vino wrote: 91 points

  July 13, 2009 - Surprisingly good Amarone for the $. Needed 1 hour decanting to open up.

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• curtispomeroy wrote: 91 points

  August 24, 2008 - This was our first amarone. Drank from a 375 ml and served with osso buco. The reputation of this pairing is well founded. This wine made the meal even more enjoyable. Though I have no other frame of reference, I have to believe that this would be considered a moderate amarone. The flavors of raisins and figs were definitely there but slightly subtle.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2000
• Type Red
• Producer Cesari
• Varietal Corvina Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Veneto
• SubRegion Valpolicella
• Appellation Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
• UPC Codes 080175664757, 8000834141001, 8000834341005

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• In Cellars 107 (50%)
• Consumed 107 (50%)

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