Irina Georgieva

9.8

Amazing amarone! Rich taste, well-rounded, well balanced, long and rich aftertaste! — 8 months ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.5

This was one of the treats of the festival. It was in perfect shape and somewhere around its precipice.

The comment made by the women representing it was, she stopped pouring it to many as they simply didn’t appreciate and or understood what they were just poured. If you understand how this is made and the extra process to make good examples, you develop #respect

Not a wine for everyone, but amazing with this kind of age and older.

@Pebble Beach Food and Wine, From The Cellar event. — a year ago

Bonnie Chu

8.9

Slow wine tasting — 5 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.0

A blend of 40% Corvina, 30% Corvinone 20% Rondinella and 10% other grape varietals. Ruby with with aromas of dried fruits with floral and smoky spice notes. On the palate ripe blackberry and cherry flavors, savory, with black pepper, tobacco & cacao notes. Full ripe tannins, chewy on long finish ending with a juicy fruit and pepper spice character. — 5 years ago

Peter Wilczynski

9.0

Deep Italian red, very sweet and perfect with some red sauce pasta — 6 years ago

Mike Laba

9.2

Coming back to this wine a year and a half after I first rated it...still love it. Nice hints of fruit and exceptionally drinkable. Will continue to stock it as a house red — 7 years ago

Nash Hyder

9.3

Full body, rounded flavor full of heavy fruit — 8 years ago

Jd Thibodeau

9.3

Cherry red. Dry-sour fruits on the nose. Medium plus body, no or little oak, very fruity, high acidity. Good Rippasso. — 9 years ago

Patrick Don Vito

8.9

TJ's bargain at $20. — 10 years ago

Selim Tlili

9.4

Smooth with notes of raisins. Wonderful bottle! — 11 years ago

JKT

9.0

Very nice, dark color earthy forest notes into firm palate with a good bite and extending into finish — 8 months ago

Brian Grech

9.4

At Flour + Water with Dani and the Ghafouri’s — 2 years ago

with Ashley

Rex Campbell

9.2

Things that stood out: raisinated stone fruit and leather. 2017 vintage, very much enjoyed with a spaghetti bolognese. — 4 years ago

Nagib Nasr

8.9

First bottle was aged, second was good. It may have been the cork. — 5 years ago

Ray Vanderhoff

9.0

Raisin and dried cherry aromas with vanilla, earth and baking spice accents. Same dried fruit flavors with hints of cloves, licorice and tobacco. Minerals and dried herbs on the long chewy finish. Lacking some boldness and a little tight, but still solid. — 6 years ago

Eric Amsler

9.2

Great, big wine...at Filomena's in DC...with great company! — 7 years ago

Jgrilllo

9.2

Amazing simply amazing. Soft gent fruit forward with a very smooth sweetish finish. Lots of fruit and depth. Amazing with cheese and salumi. — 8 years ago

Ryan Vachon

9.0

Rich, sweet, over ripe cherries, jam, light amaretto, low in tannins, berry forward — 8 years ago

Mark

9.6

Seafood Ristorante in St Andrews Scotland — 9 years ago

Pooneet K

9.0

Great amarone, and actually not overpowering or overpowered. Had with steak at Chicago cut. — 11 years ago

Norcal Columbo

9.1

Single vineyard cherry wood / in the mouth yum / balance — 14 years ago

Tom Kohli

9.0

Great Amarone! — 8 months ago

Jay Kline

9.3

Presented double-blind at Tasting Group. The wine pours a deep garnet color with a near opaque core; medium+ viscosity with moderate staining of the tears and no obvious signs of sediment. On the nose, the wine is developing with powerful notes of ripe and some dried fruits: bramble berries, slightly stewed black cherry, dried herbs, stony earth, baking spices. On the palate, the wine is dry with medium+ tannin and medium acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is long. The alcohol is high.

Initial conclusions: this could be a Grenache-based blend, Corvina-based blend or Sangiovese-based blend from France or Italy. I felt the combination of slightly stewed cherry and spices ruled out what I would want from a Sangiovese blend. Which, left me to decide between Southern Rhône or Valpolicella. I liked this wine…the oak treatment was interesting. I was getting a French barrique. Hmmm…

So, for my final conclusion: I’m calling this a Grenache-based blend, from France, from Southern Rhône, from Chateauneuf-du-Pape, 2017, from a more modern leaning producer using a good portion of barrique. I’ll be damned! I don’t hate my call but I gotta get better at distinguishing these wines from Southern Rhône. I probably just need to drink more of both, lol. Tasty stuff! Drink now through 2039. — 9 months ago

Erja Koistinen

9.0

Year 2017. Lovely fruity taste and beautiful bottle. Perfect gift to friends for Xmas. — 5 years ago

Matthew Schloss

9.5

Nice full body. Deep cherry undertones — 6 years ago

Severn G

9.1

Still yummy, picking up more of a dusty, Merlot-like finish, fun! — 7 years ago

Rob Pendell

9.0

Wonderful soft palate with notes of plum and blackberry. Some cherry on the front end with a hint of asphalt. Full mouthful of peach and grapefruit with undertones of almond, tobacco, pine, licorice, cardamom, red velvet, turmeric, oatmeal, cayenne, newspaper, Oreos, bicycle chain, chitlins, camembert, burnt umber, huckleberry, Ripple, plain yogurt, lemongrass, kohlrabe, anise, eggplant, kohlrabi, everything bagel, paczki, aspartame, caramel, coconut, latte, beef carpaccio, pine nuts, Wonder Bread, calamari, watermelon radish Jolly Rancher, aglet, sawdust, gnocchi and red grape. Finish is definitely Bruno Kirby. Pretty complex. — 8 years ago

Josh Magness

9.5

Took a while for this wine to open up after decanting. Once it did, chocolate flavors, muted cherry, with slight taste of baking spices. The Acidity helps smooth the hefty 16.5% alcohol content, but this is still a powerful wine. Burnt red color along the rim faded into deep crimson towards the middle of the glass. — 8 years ago

Kenny Louks

9.5

Excellent!!! — 9 years ago

Austin Yursik

9.0

Bye, bye Zonin. — 11 years ago