2018 | Corte Sant'Alda Amarone "Valmezzane" | Valpolicella | Italy Corse Calvi What a pleasurable wine

What a pleasurable wine

and Jorge Fontaine

and a lingering floral note

This too is very Chambollesque and a wine that should amply repay a decade plus of keeping

and spring flowers that carries to a medium to full-bodied

2018 | Corte Sant'Alda Amarone "Valmezzane" | Valpolicella | Italy Corse Calvi What a pleasurable wineA biodynamic Amarone from a Valpolicella visionary Marinella Camerani's flagship, aged four years in oak. Corte Sant'Alda is one of Valpolicella's most soulful estates, farmed biodynamically by Marinella Camerani in the Val di Mezzane at 200350 meters on limestone rich soils. "Valmezzane" is her flagship Amarone Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella grapes dried in the traditional appassimento method, then aged at least 48 months in French oak. A rich,