Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Classico N'C' Rian 2019, Le Bertarole

The vineyard has made wine naturally since 1980 and specialise in taking traditional methods and fine tuning them to make wines of exceptional quality and substance. Grass is grown between the vines which are worked individually to provide the best distribution of leaf coverage. Harvesting by hand in the second week of October generally and the grapes are then hand sorted and left to dry naturally until the end of December. No chemical treatments of any kind are used and the wine undergoes natural clarification and light filtration. It is matured for 4-5 months in the tank before moving to oak casks for 30 months and then on to barriques for 10-12 months and a further 6 months in the bottle. Slow work on this fine wine produces depth of fruit and excellent structure.