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One of two Allegrini wines making their debut on the Place de Bordeaux this year. From an 8ha vineyard at 415m....
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One of two Allegrini wines making their debut on the Place de Bordeaux this year. From an 8ha vineyard at 415m....
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Another astounding wine from Allegrini, if you didn't buy Fiermonte last year here's a chance to buy something just...
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Very dense, tightly packed aromas of blackcurrants and blackberries, as well as notes of hazelnuts. Full-bodied and...
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An elegant, sophisticated wine with a noble profile and great aromatic expression. The enveloping and intense scent...
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Polished and expressive, this shows a smoky baseline of graphite-laced minerality, with fine-grained tannins and...
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Production was skipped over in 2007 due to extreme hail damage. The fruit that would normally be destined to Amarone...
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Production was skipped over in 2007 due to extreme hail damage. The fruit that would normally be destined to Amarone...
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The Dal Forno family considered the idea of releasing their Amarone ten years after the harvest. If that plan had...
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This was an excellent vintage in much of Italy, but unfortunately the weather was not as pleasant in this specific...
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This is a real bruiser of a wine, and it marks the first of three excellent back-to-back vintages (2011, 2012 and...
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The 2013 Amarone della Valpolicella Monte Lodoletta is my favorite wine in the retrospective, along with the amazing...
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The 2016 Amarone della Valpolicella Monte Lodoletta takes wine intensity to almost unthinkable levels. That's the...
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With the 2016 still being held for release down the road as it slowly comes into focus, today it's the 2017 Amarone...
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With the 2016 still being held for release down the road as it slowly comes into focus, today it's the 2017 Amarone...
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Corvina Blend Ice Wine Mavrodaphne Pre-Arrival

Corvina grapes are most commonly associated with the Veneto region of Italy, where they have been grown successfully for centuries, and are a vital component of the region's viticultural identity. The Corvina varietal is famed around the world for its inclusion in such fine wines as Amarone and Valpolicella, where it is blended with small quantities of other grape varietals to produce wines of exceptional character and balance. The grapes themselves have a naturally high level of acidity, which often results in an aftertaste of bitter almonds. However, this bitterness is quite a sought for feature of this varietal, as it balances beautifully with the sour cherry notes also associated with the grape. Corvina grapes have a wonderfully potential for aging, and this process mellows the bitterness and acids present in the fruit, resulting in soft, complex and highly admired wines.

In the Archaea region, high in the Northern Peloponnese mountains, the predominant grape varietal grown is the prized Mavrodaphne. Meaning 'Black Laurel', the Mavrodaphne grapes have extremely dark skins, and ripen slowly under the Greek sunshine, helped by the mineral rich soils the vines thrive in. This grape varietal is mostly used to produce the opaque, inky fortified wine of the same name, which is popular all over Greece and elsewhere in the world. This fortified wine allows the grapes to really show off their complex and fascinating flavors, which range from a rich marzipan to flavors of bitter chocolate, sweet coffee, dried figs and prunes, as well as plenty of jammy fruit notes.

Mavrodaphne is produced in a traditional method which involves leaving the grape juice exposed to the sun in large vats, before having its fermentation halted by the addition of various distillates taken from previous successful vintages. This mixture contains plenty of residual sugar, which gives the end result its characteristic sticky sweetness, and also helps with the next fermentation process, which typically takes place in large underground cellars. The final product is a heady drink, absolutely bursting with unusual, rich and sweet flavors and carried in a dark and slightly viscous Port-like liquid.

Mavrodaphne grapes are also used for the production of still red wines, but are generally blended with varietals such as Agiorgitiko or imported grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon. Mavrodaphne grapes are excellent for mellowing more acidic varieties, and producing deliciously rounded wines, which have taken the international market by storm in recent decades.

Additional Information on Greek Wines


Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?