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Bertani
Story by Marty The Wine Guy
On the last day of the OG Wine Ambassador Tour of Italy we arrived in Verona, the "home town"
of Romeo and Juliet and made our way to the Valpantena area where the Bertani Family has a
huge hill side castle surrounded by the high walls. We had a perfect view of it from the road. Then
we arrived at the Bertani winery. There the Bertani family gave us a tour of the winery and showed
us where they store the grapes that are used to make the Amarone della Valpolicella. The Corvina
Veronese, Rhondinella, and Molinara are the three grapes used to make Amarone. They pick the
best of these three grapes in late September from the vineyards on the mountain slopes. They lay
the grapes on mats to dry for four to five months. They do this to concentrate the sugars and
produce a more potent wine. Each day two people go into the storage area to check the grapes
and then sometime in January, they will be able to produce the Amarone della Valpolicella. It is
very smooth with taste of ripe fruit and hints of chocolate. Afterwards, we went into the cellars
where they keep the old vintages. The cellar was cool and musty and everyone was looking for the
vintage of their birth year. I didn't find mine. But, just as we were leaving to go to lunch I found my
birth year vintage on a poster on the wall (pictured on the top right).
Guiseppe hosted our lunch at the Villa Novare, pictured below, with the main dish of Seafood
Lasagna made with mussels, octopus, and shrimp and complimented it with a 94 Amarone della
Valpolicella. Lunch was absolutely perfect.
Story by Marty The Wine Guy
On the last day of the OG Wine Ambassador Tour of Italy we arrived in Verona, the "home town"
of Romeo and Juliet and made our way to the Valpantena area where the Bertani Family has a
huge hill side castle surrounded by the high walls. We had a perfect view of it from the road. Then
we arrived at the Bertani winery. There the Bertani family gave us a tour of the winery and showed
us where they store the grapes that are used to make the Amarone della Valpolicella. The Corvina
Veronese, Rhondinella, and Molinara are the three grapes used to make Amarone. They pick the
best of these three grapes in late September from the vineyards on the mountain slopes. They lay
the grapes on mats to dry for four to five months. They do this to concentrate the sugars and
produce a more potent wine. Each day two people go into the storage area to check the grapes
and then sometime in January, they will be able to produce the Amarone della Valpolicella. It is
very smooth with taste of ripe fruit and hints of chocolate. Afterwards, we went into the cellars
where they keep the old vintages. The cellar was cool and musty and everyone was looking for the
vintage of their birth year. I didn't find mine. But, just as we were leaving to go to lunch I found my
birth year vintage on a poster on the wall (pictured on the top right).
Guiseppe hosted our lunch at the Villa Novare, pictured below, with the main dish of Seafood
Lasagna made with mussels, octopus, and shrimp and complimented it with a 94 Amarone della
Valpolicella. Lunch was absolutely perfect.
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