Verticale di Amarone
-3 decades-

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 three great vintages of "Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Classico": 

-1998: a vintage characterized by warm summer temperatures and a mild autumn. The appassimento (grape drying) was facilitated by stable and dry weather. This Amarone is a wine with soft tannins and a harmonious structure, offering excellent aging potential. 

-2008: cooler weather prevailed, favoring slow ripening. The appassimento (grape drying) was ideal, with temperatures that preserved the wine's freshness and complexity. The resulting Amarone is rich in red fruit notes and vibrant acidity. 

-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 appreciate its evolution over decades.