{"title":"AMARONE DELLA VALPOLICELLA","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"31\" data-end=\"353\"\u003eAmarone della Valpolicella is one of Italy’s most powerful and distinctive red wines, produced in the Veneto region using the traditional appassimento method. Grapes such as Corvina, Rondinella, and Molinara are partially dried before fermentation, concentrating flavors and sugars to create a wine of depth and intensity. Rich and full-bodied, Amarone reveals layered notes of dried cherry, blackberry, cocoa, fig, and warm spice, supported by structured tannins and impressive alcohol weight. Despite its power, balanced acidity preserves elegance and aging potential. Complex, bold, and cellar-worthy, Amarone is a true icon of Italian winemaking.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"monte-dei-ragni-amarone-della-valpolicella-2015-750ml","title":"Monte dei Ragni, Amarone della Valpolicella 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eZeno Zignoli's Monte dei Ragni Amarone is a cult bottling among Valpolicella's purists, made from hand-dried grapes on precipitous hillside terraces with almost monastic patience. The warm 2015 vintage yields a wine of grand, traditional scale, one of the most singular and uncompromising Amarones in the Veneto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDense, dark garnet. The nose is layered and meditative: dried black cherry, fig, raisin, cocoa, cured tobacco, leather and a wild balsamic note. The palate is enormous yet dry and composed, raisined fruit and dark spice anchored by grippy tannins and a thread of saving acidity. Bitter chocolate and dried herb lengthen it. The finish is immense, savoury and astonishingly persistent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MONTE DEI RAGNI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47403612733614,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1366\/6990\/files\/MONTEDEIRAGNI_AMARONEDELLAVALPOLICELLA2015_815a35f3-4a96-4e76-b8fd-65a3c6120538.jpg?v=1771344741"},{"product_id":"roccolograssi","title":"Roccolo Grassi, Amarone della Valpolicella 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoccolo Grassi works the eastern hills of the Valpolicella with obsessive precision, drying its grapes for months before a long, slow fermentation. The 2016 Amarone comes from a celebrated Veneto vintage, a Corvina-led blend that channels the appassimento tradition into something polished, structured and built for the very long haul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep, opaque garnet. The nose is profound and brooding: dried black cherry, fig, raisin, cocoa, sweet pipe tobacco and a balsamic, almost camphor-like depth. The palate is full and velvety yet dry, immense ripe fruit balanced by firm tannins and a vein of acidity that keeps the weight aloft. Bitter chocolate and dried herb mark the finish, which is long, warming and majestic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ROCCOLO GRASSI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47403646484654,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1366\/6990\/files\/ROCCOLOGRASSI_AMARONEDELLAVALPOLICELLA2016_5f156673-8cd9-4781-98e1-a4f56e679a07.jpg?v=1771345957"},{"product_id":"dal-forno-amarone-della-valpolicella-2008-750ml","title":"Romano dal Forno, Amarone della Valpolicella 2008","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the summit of dal Forno's work sits this Amarone, perhaps the most uncompromising in all the Veneto. Corvina and its partners are dried for months until the sugars concentrate to syrup, then fermented dry and aged at length in barrique. Few wines on earth deliver such force with such precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInk-dark and viscous, it floods the glass with macerated black cherry, dried date, fig paste, cocoa nib and exotic spice. The palate is colossal yet astonishingly poised, velvet tannins wrapping immense fruit, warming alcohol balanced by acidity that keeps it lifted. Chocolate, raisin and tar resound through a finish measured in minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ROMANO DAL FORNO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453164306606,"sku":null,"price":435.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1366\/6990\/files\/DALFORNOROMANO_AMARONEDELLAVALPOLICELLA2008_2de9c3f2-c860-45b0-aa30-a887fac6ff82.jpg?v=1771343737"},{"product_id":"roccolo-grassi-amarone-2015","title":"Roccolo Grassi, Amarone della Valpolicella 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the hills above Mezzane, Roccolo Grassi craft Amarone with rare restraint, drying Corvina, Corvinone, and Rondinella for months before a long, patient fermentation. The 2015 is a wine of weight without heaviness, opulence held in check by Valpolicella's nervous freshness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep garnet, almost opaque at the core. Aromas unfold in layers: dried cherry, fig, cocoa, sweet tobacco, and a balsamic lift of dried herbs. The palate is dense and velvety, plush with macerated dark fruit, framed by ripe tannin and a savoury, bittersweet edge. The finish runs long, warming, and grand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ROCCOLO GRASSI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461265572014,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1366\/6990\/files\/ROCCOLOGRASSIAMARONE2015_7e2ac25c-b162-4072-9994-c11e45c7e87d.jpg?v=1771345936"},{"product_id":"marion-amarone-della-valpolicella-2019-750ml","title":"Marion, Amarone della Valpolicella 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarion farms the eastern hills of Valpolicella with an uncompromising, traditional hand, and its Amarone is among the appellation's most concentrated. Built from dried Corvina and its companions, the 2019 is monumental yet remarkably composed, the appassimento richness held in check by genuine freshness and depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep, dense garnet, it billows with dried cherry, fig, plum compote and raisin over chocolate, sweet spice and a balsamic edge. The palate is full-bodied and velvety, the concentrated dark fruit lifted by surprising acidity and a savoury, almost bitter-almond twist. Powerful tannins give grip without astringency. The finish is long, warming and lingeringly sweet-savoury.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MARION","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47469474250926,"sku":null,"price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1366\/6990\/files\/MARION_AMARONE2019_f25e7772-c9fb-436d-821d-a1b551e489a0.jpg?v=1771347768"}],"url":"https:\/\/i.wine\/collections\/amarone-della-valpolicella.oembed","provider":"I.WINE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}