Amarone della Valpolicella ‘A’ | Alpha Zeta

About The Producer

Alpha Zeta was started in 1999 when David Gleave MW, working with leading New Zealand winemaker, Matt Thomson, set out to produce a range of modern, fruit driven wines from the hills outside Verona. Their aim was to work with growers to obtain ripe grapes (by reducing yields and picking later) and then, using Matt's expertise, preserve these flavours in the finished wines. The result is a realisation of the potential inherent in Veronese viniculture.

About The Wine

Selected grapes are picked in mid September and left to dry in specially ventilated rooms until the end of January. During this process the grapes lose about 40% of their natural weight. This Amarone was matured in oak (a mixture of large ‘botti’ and French oak barriques) for 18 months, lightly fined with egg-whites and then bottled.

Tasting Note

This wine is rich and modern, with an attractive fresh perfume. Aromas of ripe black cherry, plum and hints of fruit cake. On the palate it is full bodied and rich, with cherry, vanillin and coffee flavours. It has well balanced tannins and finishes long. You do not get better value Amarone than this!

6 x Amarone della Valpolicella 'A' by Alpha Zeta