Bertani in 2010

1967 Berani
Reciotto della Valpolicella
Amarone

Founded in 1857 when the brothers Gaetano and Giovan Battista Bertani
purchased several vineyards in Valpolicella with the goal of creating
their own high quality wines.  To this day they maintain the highest standards of production.  All their grapes are hand picked and the
vineyards carefully tended to.  Among their best vineyards are Fumane, Marano, and Novare Valley.  Novare was the first estate they
purchased.  It is over 220 hectares of premiere southern facing vineyards, and is composed of two different types of soil(marly-calcareous and basaltic).

Bertani is considered the god-father of the magical wine Amarone.  In 1957, so the story goes, the Bertani brothers were making Reciotto and the fermentation process did not stop.  Like many happy accidents in wine making they found when they tapped the barrels they had a
completely new, and delicious, style of wine.  They called this wine “Amarone” for bitter.

Nose: high-grade earl grey tea, tar, dried rose petals, and chocolate.

Palate: smoke, tar, dried plums and figs, chocolate, black berries, earl grey tea, a hint of black truffle, and dried leaves.