Winery CastagnerFuoriclasse Leon Grappa Amarone della Valpolicella Riserva
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Castagner's Fuoriclasse Leon Grappa Amarone della Valpolicella Riserva.
Discover the grape variety: Bertille Seyve 872
Interspecific crossing made by Bertille Seyve (1864-1944) between 85 Seibel and 2 Gaillard. This direct producing hybrid was mainly multiplied in the center of France where we found it and photographed it, but also in the departments of the Rhone valley, the Loiret valley, Isère, Vienne and Nièvre.
Informations about the Winery Castagner
The Winery Castagner is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 41 wines for sale in the of Amarone della Valpolicella to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Amarone della Valpolicella
The wine region of Amarone della Valpolicella is located in the region of Valpolicella of Vénétie of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Ernesto Ruffo or the Domaine Dal Forno Romano produce mainly wines red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Amarone della Valpolicella are Rondinella, Corvina and Molinara, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Amarone della Valpolicella often reveals types of flavors of cherry, forest floor or nutty and sometimes also flavors of nutmeg, mulberry or walnut.
The wine region of Veneto
Veneto is an important and growing wine region in northeastern Italy. Veneto is administratively Part of the Triveneto area, aLong with its smaller neighbors, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In terms of geography, culture and wine styles, it represents a transition from the Alpine and Germanic-Slavic end of Italy to the warmer, drier, more Roman lands to the South. Veneto is slightly smaller than the other major Italian wine regions - Piedmont, Tuscany, Lombardy, Puglia and Sicily - but it produces more wine than any of them.
The word of the wine: Phylloxera
Aphid that came from America and ravaged European vineyards at the end of the 19th century. It lives on the roots of the vine, from which it pumps the sap. The only vines capable of resisting it had to be imported from the United States, and then grafted onto their root system the wood of traditional French grape varieties. Today, grafted vines are always planted.
