product details
key information
- Region: Veneto
- Sub-Region: Valpolicella
- Style: red
- Vintage:
- Taste guide: D
- Grape variety: 70% Corvina Veronese, 25% Rondinella, 5% Sangiovese
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The Allegrini estate is located in Fumane di Valpolicella, and the Allegrini family started here in the 16th Century, if not before. All of Allegrini's wines are produced from estate-grown fruit; there is no négociant aspect to this family business. They tend over 70 hectares of vineyard, in the communes of Fumane, Sant' Ambrogio and San Pietro, all situated within the Valpolicella Classico DOC.
One of Allegrini's famous vineyards is Palazzo della Torre, a clay site which is the source of the wine of the same name. Here Corvina, Rondinella and Sangiovese come together, in part using a ripasso method for a portion of the harvest; 70% of the fruit is fermented in the normal fashion, but the remainder is dried until December, and then the wine is blended with the dried fruit for a second fermentation. Deep, ruby red in colour, with intense perfumes of cherry-chocolate on the nose. On the palate the wine has good depth and power, with a hint of dried cherries from the ‘ripasso’ vinification. Smooth and full-bodied, with a rounder style, lower acidity and fuller structure than a Valpolicella Classico.