Speri Sant'Urbano Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2012
-
Wine
Enthusiast -
James
Suckling
Product Details
Your Rating
Somm Note
Winemaker Notes
This wine can be enjoyed as a meditation wine, but is excellent when paired with red meats, game, and seasoned cheeses.
Blend: 70% Corvina Veronese, 25% Rondinella, 5% Corvinone
Professional Ratings
-
Wine Enthusiast
This complex and fragrant wine opens with dried violet, black plum and cooking spice aromas. The smooth, well-structured palate doles out blackberry jam, pipe tobacco, ripe black cherry, nutmeg and licorice flavors. Velvety tannins provide elegant support. Drink through 2027.
-
James Suckling
A vivid and fresh Amarone with blueberry, chocolate and nutmeg. Hints of black pepper too. Medium body, fine tannins and a crisp finish.
Other Vintages
2018-
James
Suckling
-
James
Suckling
-
James
Suckling -
Robert
Parker -
Wine
Enthusiast -
Wine
Spectator
-
Robert
Parker -
James
Suckling - Decanter
-
Robert
Parker - Decanter
-
James
Suckling
-
Wine
Enthusiast -
James
Suckling -
Wine
Spectator
-
Wine
Enthusiast
-
Wine
Enthusiast
-
Wine
Spectator
-
Wine
Enthusiast -
Robert
Parker -
Wine
Spectator
The grapes not only form the basis for a good wine: they give it its essence, its soul, its personality. They adapt themselves to the rhythms of nature, they make themselves at home in the land in which they grow and allow themselves to be guided by the hands of the vigneron. Cultivating the land is an ancient occupation, tinged with tradition and the aura of times past. The Speris began working as vine growers in Valpolicella seven generations ago. Times change but the old values endure, as does the Speris’ pride in being part of an extraordinary area like the Valpolicella classica zone and the moral duty they feel to express its characteristics in their company’s wines. One of the historical families in Valpolicella, Speri is an important and faithful exponent of the wines of the Valpolicella Classica zone and has also become, thanks to the firm’s consistency and its intimate links with its area of origin, an authoritative point of reference within the Italian wine scene.