2003 Amarone della Valpolicella, Corte Sant'Alda, Veneto

Shaped by a hot summer, Marinella has succeeded in producing a rich wine which captures the vintage’s dried fruit and spice character on the nose while the palate’s enveloping with its suave, succulent, damson fruit, supple tannins and fresh, cleansing acidity. A great match for venison. Producers are increasingly turning to more mechanised, quicker methods of shrivelling the fruit prior to pressing and fermentation. Not so Marinella, who continues to pursue the traditional approach to appassimento, air-drying the harvest in lofts. The result being a greater evaporation of must weight (60 -65%) and a finer Amarone.”
(David Berry Green, BBR Buyer)