Amarone della Valpolicella Case Vecie takes its time opening up in the glass. It tricks you with a more understated yet also meditative expression, pulling you close to find a remarkably pretty bouquet of blackberries, lavender and violets. This is pure elegance on the palate, coasting across a core of brisk acids while showing formidable density with its display of radiant black fruits, which gain further volume and depth toward the close. Cherries, sweet spices, mocha and dark inner florals linger through the dramatically long finale.

94 POINTS FALSTAFF

92 POINTS WINE SPECTATOR

91 POINTS WINE ENTHUSIAST

In Case Vecie, with over 70 hectares, Brigaldara has set up a very strict action where men, plants and animals are all part of the same virtuous cycle: other than viticulture, forestry is practiced, and Brigaldara is responsible for the maintainance of dry-stone walls and fields, the management of the truffle ground and the reintroduction of sheep farming.

A thousand years of history, one hundred and twenty hectares of property - forty-seven of which are planted with vines - distributed in three different areas of Verona: Valpolicella Classica, Valpantena and Eastern Valpolicella. A historic family, the Cesari, that has owned the villa and the surrounding land since 1928, who is committed to the enhancement of a rich and heterogeneous property. A team of young winemakers and agronomistsdedicated to the study and customization of each intervention in the vineyard, to enhance the terroirs and microterroirs that make up the different souls of the wines that are here produced.

Pairing Suggestions:  Ideal with meat dishes, or with cured meats and with cheese.

Maturation: Aging 2 years in small wooden barrels and 2 years in large wooden barrels