Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Pruviniano Domini Veneti 2019: a solid wine for those who love thunderous tannins
The 2019 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Pruviniano Domini Veneti is a structured, spicy, and full-bodied red wine.
Think not of a modern-style Amarone, but of a great classic, a big, styled wine with a protruding jaw that is the perfect example of an all-muscle Amarone.
The extract is cocky; it hits you in the face, wraps around your gums, and covers every taste bud in a dark, black sea of sweet, ripe flavors.
It is not a pleasant, light, elegant, or easy-to-understand wine. Instead, it is all about arrogance.
This doesn’t mean that it’s a rude or confused wine; it just means that it’s still too young and hesitant right now, which is why the anger comes through.
It’s an Amarone, so of course it can age well and should be drunk at least once every five years, in 2028. When drunk now, it is an unfinished wine that is too thick and arrogant.
How it gets made
The grapes come from a very sunny and happy cru in the area of Prognol. The grapes are picked, put on racks to dry until Christmas, and then the wine is made with special yeasts. One month of maceration and a year and a half of aging in French oak barrels.
The organoleptic qualities
Throwing a wild plum color into a black hole. Explosive and a little bit fake nose, with wood, vanilla, Kentucky heel, and all the smells that come from the wood being a bully in the neighborhood.
Mint, chocolate, and ripe fruit. With earthy notes and a coffee and eucalyptus finish.
The taste is big, slow, and full of tannins. They give structure and innervation, but are still too rough to be pleasant. It needs to sit in the cellar for at least 5 years, if not 10 years.
Overall, it is a wine that stays true to the traditional style that Americans like, but it is not bad at all.
There is speed and breadth, but only time can shape all this depth.
Price
It costs about 37 euros on average.
Food Pairings
Black truffle risotto, passatelli with Parmigiano fondue and truffle, bucatini all’amatriciana, roast beef, hamburger.