ROMANO DAL FORNO · Amarone della Valpolicella
Romano dal Forno, Amarone della Valpolicella 2008
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The wine
At 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.
Ink-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.
Why we chose it
“Amarone taken to its absolute edge: monumental, and somehow still graceful.”
Tasting
2026–2045