93 Points - Wine Advocate (2011) - One of Italys most revered red wines, Amarone della Valpolicella is a powerful and concentrated wine enhanced by the partial drying of the grapes before pressing. This 'Corte Bra' from the Sartori family run vineyards is a triumph of intense ripe fruits and spice with a balancing acidity. Ruby in colour; ripe fruit aromas, with notes of blackcurrant, raspberry, and dried herbs; full bodied on the palate with rich fruit flavours, bright acidity, and a lingering finish. A Fine Wine to savour.

About the Producer

Sartori, founded in 1898 and still run by the founding family over 120 years later. The company originally came into being because of the needs of thirsty restaurant clients. Pietro Sartori, the founder, was a trattoria owner and his premises was a favourite haunt of merchants and businessmen of the Verona area, whom Pietro took care to supply with the best Rosso Veronese wine, as it was called back then. It was this inn and its strategic location that would turn Pietro into a wine merchant and led him to buy his first vineyard in Negrar, in 1898, so that good wine would always be on the tables of his devoted clientele.

Taste

Ruby in colour; ripe fruit aromas, with notes of blackcurrant, raspberry, and dried herbs; full bodied on the palate with rich fruit flavours, bright acidity, and a lingering finish.