Rubinelli Vajol Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG 2013Varietals: Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella, Molinari, Oseleta Grapes are hand harvested and laid out on straw mats to raisinate for as long as 120 days. Once a minimum of 40% water content is lost, the grapes are moved to vats to ferment at cold temperatures. The wine is aged 36 months in 3,000L botte French and Slavonian oak barrels. Gaetano Rubinelli (1886 1971) was the founder of Rubinelli Vajol, having first built the Chievo Dam along the River

Following the success of this project

who made wine in Slovakia for the Austro-Hungarian court more than a century ago

Varietals:  80% Carignan

The west wind moves constantly through the vines

but it retains plenty of cut in this warm year and should age well

Varietal:   85% Valdiguié | 14% Zinfandel | 1% Trousseau

with red fruit aromas

while the fermentation goes on for a leisurely month or two

Varietal:   Verdicchio

Aged for 12 months in barrel + 6 months in tank

Indigenous ueast

these wines rank with the very best of Provence