Clementi Pietro Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2015 (750ml)

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Producer	Clementi Pietro
Country	Italy
Region	Veneto
Subregion	Valpolicella
Varietal	Red Italian Blend
Vintage	2015
Sku	15274
Size	750ml

  

Clementi’s is an Amarone of tension and freshness, tasting not only of dried red fruits and chocolate, but of salt and spice. Powerful without being hefty, and fully, mouthwateringly dry, it is built for the long haul, and will continue to develop complexity and depth over three decades or more of bottle aging.

Clementi’s remarkably vibrant, layered Amarone comes from bunches picked in mid-September and dried in shallow wooden crates in a naturally ventilated room of the winery until they lose 40 to 50% of their original water weight—which takes until the following January or February. At that point, the shriveled grapes are pressed and fermented via naturally occurring yeasts (a rarity for Amarone, as its high sugar levels have difficulty fermenting all the way through without outside assistance), and the wine spends five years in 30-hectoliter casks followed by three years in bottle before reaching the market.

The estate encompasses 14 contiguous hectares of vineyards extending from the winery itself, situated at 350 meters altitude, up to over 400 meters further into the hills, and exposed southward, southwestward, and westward. Planted to roughly 65% Corvina, 30% Rondinella, and 5% Molinara (plus a touch of Osoleta), most of Clementi’s vines are trained in the old local Pergola Veronese method, whereby bunches grow far above the ground, protected from the sun by leaf cover and from surface moisture by their height. Now under the guidance of Pietro’s children Bernardino, Maria, and Maurizio, the Clementi estate uses no synthetic chemicals in their vineyards, and all fruit is harvested by hand.