In a nutshell: Lots of commercial Soave and Valpolicella, centre of dried-grape wine production. Main grapes: Corvina Veronese, Molinara, Rondinella (red); Garganega, Trebbiano...

17 Jan - See additional information at the end of this article. January 2012 has torn away another human icon from the Italian wine scene. Only a few weeks after Giulio Gambelli passed...

See my overview of the current situation in Amarone - an unstoppable, if variable, force? Contrary to many other anteprima, or en primeur, tastings (see this guide to my recent...

The 2007 harvest, recently showcased in an anteprima (en primeur) tasting of Amarones in Veneto (see my 65 tasting notes ), will be remembered in Valpolicella as the earliest of the last 70...

Nick and I were invited to dinner almost as soon as we arrived in Singapore last week for the Room to Read dinner by wine importer Alan Wong, whom I'd last see at last March's Ridge...

Last Monday 10 of Amarone's most illustrious producers assembled in London to attract attention to their collective attempts to halt the decline in price of what they consider one of Italy's most...

Amarone, one of Italy's most famous wines, seems especially badly hit by the current economic situation, as outlined in Amarone - halting the decline? I was therefore fascinated...

The Consorzio of Valpolicella has submitted a proposal to change the status of its two most famous wines, Recioto and Amarone, from DOC to DOCG to be approved by the Italian government. The...

Ten of the most influential producers of Amarone have teamed up to reverse what they call the 'trading down' of one of Italy's most important wines, Amarone. The producers have formed an...

See tasting notes on 2005 Amarones by the score To judge by production and sales statistics, the Veneto's richest red, Amarone, seems, at least for now, to be surviving the...

See also Amarone - can quality be maintained? The Amarone producers who submitted their wines to the preview ( anteprima ) tasting of the just released, or soon to be bottled,...

Alessandro and Filippo Filippi challenge the meaning and value of the Soave appellation. Soave, the wine at which most wine lovers would turn up their noses, has suffered for years under a...

Both Valpolicella and Soave have an image problem not unlike that of Liebfraumilch. Too many weedy, cheap examples have undermined the reputation of these wines in the eyes of many wine drinkers,...

Find the 2006 Soave I recently tasted about 60 of the wines UK retailers Majestic are currently most proud of and this was one of six wines that really stood out for...

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