2012 Masi Amarone della Valpolicella Serego Alighieri Vaio Armaron

Proprietary Blend - 750ML
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REVIEWS

JS 95 WS 94 WE 91
JS 95

jamessuckling.com, November 2018

A firm and tannic 2012 with chewy yet polished tannins and lots of dark fruit. Lots of blue fruit and minerals. Full-bodied yet tight and powerful. Shows structure for the future, but if you can’t wait, decant two hours...
WS 94

Wine Spectator, July 2018

A harmonious, medium- to full-bodied red, notable for its fine, satinlike tannins and pure note of black cherry that sounds through the wine, accompanied by accents of woodsy spice, violet and smoke-tinged mineral, with a...
WE 91

Wine Enthusiast, March 2019

Scorched earth, prune, Asian spice, toasted nut and leather aromas make their way to the forefront. The brawny palate offers raisin, cherry marinated in spirits, licorice and tobacco set against fine-grained tannins...

WINE DETAILS

Color & Type Red
Varietal Proprietary Blend
Country Italy
Region Veneto
Sub-region Amarone della Valpolicella
Vintage 2012
Size 750ML
Percent alcohol 15.5%
Closure Cork

Masi, one of the biggest and most important wineries in Valpolicella, is a family-owned and run company dating back seven generations. It derives its name from the Vaio dei Masi, the small valley purchased at the end of the 18th century by the Boscaini family.

Masi owns vineyards throughout the Venetian territories. The first purchases, which they began acquiring at the end of the 18th century, were in Valpolicella Classico and in other classic Veronese zones. They also went eastward to Friuli and northwest to Trentino. The latest purchases have been in the Tupungato Valley of Argentina.

The Masi cellars are amongst the biggest in Italy and include the experimental cellar where the Masi Technical Group apply and evaluate the most up-to-date technologies for vinification and refinement.

Since 1973, Masi has collaborated with the Conti Serego Alighieri family on their estates in Valpolicella, and more recently, with the Conti Bossi Fedrigotti family in Trentino, as part of an ambitious project aiming to rediscover the lustre of the farming and winemaking traditions of the nobility from the Venetian area.

Today, Masi is a leader in the production of Amarone and has acknowledged expertise in the Appassimento technique, a traditional method used in the Venetian regions to concentrate aromas and tastes in wine. The grapes are laid out on bamboo racks in drying lofts for the winter period before vinification. This technique is employed in an innovative fashion by the Masi Technical Group to make modern wines from semi-dried grapes.

Masi’s Vaio is an important Amarone with extraordinary power and complexity, a classic in the Italian winemaking portfolio. This is the icon wine of the historic Serego Alighieri estate and comes from the eponymous vineyard, the source, it seems, of the name Amarone itself.

The wine is produced using time-honored practices in the vineyard, in the ancient drying lofts and in the cellars. Its elegant personality is enhanced by the use of the Serego Alighieri-clone of the Molinara grape and by aging in cherry-wood casks, as family tradition dictates.