Verticale di Amarone
-The recent history-

The experience we offer is divided into two parts: the winery tour and the vertical tasting.

THE TOUR

The goal of our tour is to take our visitors through the journey of the grapes: from the vineyard to the bottle.

The tour starts from our vineyard on the back of the company (“Santa Cristina” Vineyard), one between our smallest (just 12,000 square meters) but being one of the few vineyards in our area just a few hundred meters from Lake Garda.

The tour will then continue to the grape reception area and to the fermentation cellar where, after harvesting, grapes, after being crushed, are fermented in steel tanks at controlled temperature.

We will then move into the underground barrel room, based on two large rooms with controlled temperature and humidity: first room hosts 40 large (2500 liters each) oak barrel and about 800 smaller barriques (300 and 500 liters each) for the refining of our powerful red wines and complete alcoholic and malolactic fermentations. The second room has been created just to age and refine already bottled red wines, which rest all requested time to be perfectly ready for consumption.

You will then walk to our bottling line where wine is bottled and where you will have an overview to all requested bottling, labelling and packaging machines. The visit will end by visiting our warehouses where all wines are stocked before shipping.

During our tour you will hear a lot of details about Lenotti Family history and about our company, as well as explanations and stories about our wines.

THE TASTING

After the tour, we'll return to the barrel cellar where we'll offer a guided tasting of four great vintages of "Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Classico": 

-2012: a hot and dry vintage, with accelerated appassimento (drying of grapes). This Amarone is a powerful and concentrated wine, with notes of dark fruit, cocoa, and spices. It boasts a robust structure with excellent aging potential. 

-2013: a mild summer and dry autumn means a cool and favorable weather. This yielded an elegant and balanced Amarone. Its persistent freshness stands out, accompanied by notes of wild berries and spices.

-2016: this vintage had balanced and favorable weather – not too hot, dry, but with stable and never excessively high temperatures. The appassimento of the grapes produced a complex and harmonious Amarone, with notes of wild berries, spices, a long finish, and a well-balanced profile. 

-2018: the vintage enjoyed a cool and stable climate. The appassimento of the grapes was ideal, with slow ripening that preserved freshness and finesse. The 2018 Amarone is an elegant wine, with notes of ripe red fruits and a very promising tannic structure for long aging.

THANK YOU

We hope that with this proposal, we can fully introduce you to the characteristics of this extraordinary wine and help you understand its evolution in the first years of bottle life. This will hopefully increase your interest in exploring all the possible evolutions that can occur in bottles aged for much longer periods. The next step could be to participate in a tasting of historic and long-aged vintages.