The Beginners Guide to AMARONE Wines
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2021
- Amarone della Valpolicella is a powerful red wine made in Veneto region in Italy. In this video I will talk about grape varieties used in Amarone wines, about the unique vine-making technique called Appassimento, what is behind the sweetness in this vine, how Amarone tastes like and some food pairing recommendations.
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omg just hearing the word amarone makes my head and senses blow up! if i hear the description it’s almost torture not having it right now 😂 it’s poetry in a bottle, dessert in a bottle that’s not sweet, it surely is meditative and much much more. i’d say if a wine could be glamor and sexy, that’s amarone!
It seems to me, now I know Your favourite wine style! 😉 Do You like other wines mades from dried grapes? 😁
I find that Amarone is best paired with a good book, a pipe and a person you love.
It's also the perfect accent for a special occasion.
Agnes, I just discovered your channel and it is fast becoming my favorite. Thank you.
Thank You! 🙏🏻 Yes, Amarone, I think is more wine for meditation, which includes good book and a loved one, as You say. ☺️
Very helpful and informative video! The ideas for food pairings are nice.
Thank You! 🙏🏻 Let me know, if You try any of the pairings! 😉
Agnes that is such a wonderful explanation of Amarone. Thank you.
Thank You. I am so pleased You enjoyed it! 🥂🙌✨
Best explaination, charming video !
Nice setting and lovely dog !
Thank You’ 🥂🍾✨ Cheers!
I’m really enjoying Italian one at the moment, thanks for the video and keep them coming 👍
Thank You! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Enjoying your channel. It's thorough yet not so detailed to be boring for beginners. Keep up the good work. Btw, your English is very good
Thank You so much for the good words and feedback! ✨ It really motivates to continue creating this content! 🥂🍾
One of my favorites!
Cheers! It is a unique wine! ✨🍷
Great channel that just popped up ! Outstanding presentation of Amarone!!
Thank You for the lovely comments! 🙏🏻🥂
@@NoSediment I love dark chocolate & mature dark cigars with Amarone.
I also love Valpolicella Rippasa's.🍷🍷Cheers!
Amarone is one of the favorite wines! 🍷
Rich and deep in the nose and on the palate. Great wine :) and the price is great too 😅
Indeed, Amarone has remained relatively decent prices despite it being amongst the greatest Italian red wins! Lets hope it stays that way
@NoSediment sure, it's not so expensive as sasicaia, ornelaia, even tignanello. But , the price is usually around 100 euros and more.
Not everyday wine, unfortunately 😀
I must be very fortunate then, because in my market there are very few Amarones close to 100$ mark. Usually around 50. 🙌🙌🙌
@NoSediment it depends of course, of the place you live and the prices there.
50 euros for amarone - is rather good offer 👍
But still, not for everyday, if we talking about 'average wage' 🙂
@MeDBeDuK absolutely agree. 🙏🏻
It makes sense that you suggested to watch your other videos on primitivo and Zinfandel if we like this type of powerful wine. Amarone, Primitivo/Zinfandel are my absolutely favourite wines 🍷 ❤️
Great to hear! 🫶🍷 Cheers! 🍾
This video is very informative! I was not familiar with the Amarone making process.
Thank You! ✨
Thank you! Good video!
Thank You! 🥂✨
Another great video! Complimenti! Have you ever thought about making a video about Italian sparkling wine ("Metodo Classico") and its different appelations and areas (such as Franciacorta, Trento D.O.C., Alta Langa etc...)?
Speaking of Amarone, I suggest you taste: Guaite di Noemi, Valentina Cubi, Daniela Piccoli and Brigaldara as well as some great famous remarkable wineries (like Quintarelli, Romano Del Forno, Allegrini, Bertani, etc..).
Thank You for the suggestion, yes it is a great topic - to evaluate the traditional method sparkling wines from Italy. Thank You also for adding some of the great producers worth trying! Some of them I know quite well! 😉
You can keep your Bordeaux. Amraone ❤❤❤
Hahaha, can I keep both? 😂
I am a Wine enthusiast I Love your videos
Thank You! 🙏🏻 Cheers! 🍷
Great Wine Very Nice!🍷
Thank You’ 🙌
great wines for sure but I think there is more latitude for pairing, in fact even a good pizza pairs with amarone! my opinion.
I think it depends on the Amarone style. There are some that can even resemble Pinot Noir, but in reality majority of them are rich, opulent, full bodied, high in alcohol and with residual sugar. I often refer to Amarone as meditation wine! 🍷
Un vin d' meditazione....bellisimo
Yes, people call it that’ true! 🍷
omg that coffee dog is gorgeous
Thanks, he is a lovely dogo! 🐕
When you live in a cooler climate country, Amarone is an all year round wine.
Hahahah, true story! We call it meditation wine You can sip next to a fire place. 🙌
bravo
I was trying, it is hard to lose a habit! 🎈
Thank you for the review, I am just coming to terms with Amarone and have been trying Masi Amarone. What are you views on this producer and the Amarone they make?
In my opinion Masi has a very unique style Amarone, as they don’t mind some botrytis in their fruit during the drying process. A lot of producers will avoid that. That can bring in some unique flavours for a red wine! 🍷
@@NoSediment Thank you for your reply
I m from Verona and so .... Amarone is not unknown for me. The best I ever tasted is the one of Romano dal Forno. Masi s also very good.
Amarone is not an everyday wine but during the winter it s a very good one.
Grazie mille e buona giornata.
I heard about dal forno, I drank a babyamarone from Dal Forno, absolutely with it!
I would like to taste the Massi Amarone too, when I found so I can share with
Thank You for the tips regarding producers. 🙌 I agree, Amarone is not for every day, but here in Latvia, when winter ❄️ comes, it is one of the best to have. Especially sitting by the fireplace! 😉🍷
I buy 6 bottles of Masi Amarone every year at Christmas. It’s very expensive but is honestly delicious and worth every penny 😅
@@beezergutler5488 You are right my dear friend. Life is too short to drink bad wine.
Amarone is a great Christmas wine.
Enjoy.
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I have a case of 2016 vintage now but I’m wondering whether to keep some for ageing. Maybe another 2-3 years? I don’t know if it is worth it…
You have very good information about wine and amarone
But zenato it is too much young to drink
Almost each amarone need 10 years time than can start to drink it 😊
I would really like to debunk this myth 😟 Sorry. :) I am a true believer that a great wine can be approachable at any stage. And when it comes to Amarone, it is truly one of the GREAT wines that can be easily enjoyed in its youth. Because of the winemaking process, the tannins always seem riper and softer than any other wine in their age. 😌 Cheers! I love discussions like these! ✨
Better buy up the 2015 and 2016 bottles
For sure, fine vintages! 🍷Cheers!
I never understand this correlation between alcohol level and residual sugar. Since sugar is turned into alcohol, it would seem that high alcohol wines like Amarone and Port have had 100% of their sugars converted into alcohol, whereas low alcohol wines like Riesling have had a lesser percentage of their sugars converted to alcohol. However, Amarone, port, and other fortified wines are usually sweet while having high alcohol. How does this make sense?
Hi. :) yes, usually ~17 of sugar are needed to create 1% of alcohol via fermentation. So the correlation between sugar amount in grape juice and final alcohol in wine is very real. And grapes for Amarone are dried before pressed and that increases the sugar amount, thus increasing the alcohol level, hence all Amarone wines have elevated alcohol levels. Port wine is different because it is fortified, and it never had a chance to ferment all of its sugars. Because spirit is added to fermenting must, increasing alcohol level to 18 and higher, which is toxic to most yeasts and they die. Thus sugar is left unfermented and alcohol is high because it is not natural -> it is added. I hope I was able to answer Your question.
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If a heavy CabSauv is a 1 out of 10 and a Port wine is a 10 out of 10, where does Amarone rank/score?
Hi, I am not sure I can answer Your question. Do You mean in terms of sugar? Body? Or Alcohol? Or style and quality?
Can I drink some wine with you?
Our can you produce a video about Superiore, brunello and barollo ...
Hey, it really depends on where You are located. 😉 There should be some videos on Barolo and Brunello, but I guess I should go into more detail in my next videos! ✨🥂🍾
@@NoSediment hey I'm from Germany. So probably far away from you.
Have you ever drank Serbian wine?
You look beautiful!!
Thank You’ 🥂 Cheers! 🍾✨
Is Amarone sourish like Sherry?
Hi, I am really sorry, but I am not sure I truly understand what You mean by “sourish”. Sure, it does have acidity, but it also shows more extraction and body.
re: your question from one month ago to No Sediment.
The owner of the channel Agnese is not a native English speaker so the term sourish is perhaps foreign to her though I understood your question. Another DM asks about the name which is confusing still as amaro means bitter in Italian, but not as in bitters, but more along the lines I believe you and I think of as sour cherry as in cherry preserves. As for sour like sherry, there are as you know many different styles of sherry, but I can't think of one I would characterize as sour per se. Amontillado has a lovely nutty quality along with oloroso but with more candied fruit and caramel etc. Amarone is dry and you can get that cherry quality as in preserves so perhaps the confusion, and it is very full bodied and rich. They make one for dessert which is called recioto della Valpolicalla which is a dessert style
I haven’t been a fan of Amarone because the high alcohol isn’t usually integrated well. I can handle the high alcohol Napa Cabernets but not the Amarones.
This is why wine world is so great, there is a wine style for each of our preferences! 🍷🎉🍾 Cheers!
Amarone is 'Christmas in a glass".
Yes, I have to agree with that! 🙌
How can amarone be sweet where from the name itself is amarone which is derived from the word amaro, which is bitter in Italian.
Also, do they ferment it until dry?
Hey, Amarone is never sweet tasting as a dessert for example, that is true. Yet, it can sometimes have the richness of the fruit and density, also a little more residual sugar than other classical red wines, all constituting to sweet tasting palate for some! 🤷♂️
re: Amarone wine from video No Sediment
Amarone is usually quite dry, but somewhat mellow for an Italian red so the etymology is confusing. Amarone would be more ripe than a Valpolicella hence you can confuse or conflate ripeness with sweetness as they often go together. Just think of a ripe brown banana, it is invariably sweeter than an unripe one, but you still would not consider it sweet if you follow me. One tastes sweetness on the tip of the tongue and people often say a wine is sweet when it is in an off-dry or even a dry style. Taste a riesling sometime that you believe is sweet place a bit on the tip of your tongue and then you find that it is not really sweet at all. There is a dessert style wine from that area with the same grapes similar to an Amarone, but is called recioto della Valpolicella, but here it is made in a sweet style with dried grapes and not fermented dry as that would negate the effects of the ripening process. It can be labelled recioto della Valpolicella Amarone at times as it is essentially a dessert style Amarone. Italians do not eat a lot of pastry more fruit and cheese for dessert. The Amarone and better still the recioto style goes wonderfully with aged semi-soft cheeses, but not hard salty ones. Gorgonzola works well if it is not commercially produced as they are usually salty. They also make a Gorgonzola dolce if you can find it which is made for dessert. Hope this helps more than confuses.
you are gorgeous. I loved it.
Thank you very much ☺️ Cheers 🥂
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