MASI RISERVA COSTASERA AMARONE CLASSICO

Masi Riserva Costasera
Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG

Opaque dark red. Intense, super-ripe fruit, cinnamon, vanilla. Warm and satisfying, baked fruit, sweet spices, cooked cherries, cloves, dry and long fi nish.

VARIETIES: Corvina 70%, Rondinella 15%, Oseleta 10% and Molinara 5%
REGION: Valpolicella, Veneto
AGEING: 40 months in Allier and Slavonian oak barrels
GUARDING POTENTIAL: 30 – 35 years
SERVE: Serve at 18ºC – 20ºC
FITS TO: Ideal with red meat, game and mature cheeses. Fine after-dinner wine
VIVINO: Average 4.5 ★★★★★

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Riserva Costasera | Range | Masi Agricola

Proud, majestic, complex and exuberant: this is a special cru version of Masi’s gentle giant, Costasera. A benchmark for the Amarone category, which, together with Barolo and Brunello, makes up the aristocracy of the Italian wine world.

Here Masi’s unrivalled expertise in the Appassimento technique is used to give the grapes a long period of further ripening on bamboo racks and an ageing period for the wine of at least three years in casks made from the finest wood types. The expert use of indigenous grapes for the Valpolicella Classica area – Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara – is enriched by the addition of the unique Oseleta, a grape variety rediscovered by Masi.

Costasera: the slopes which face the sunset are the best ones in Valpolicella Classica for producing a high-quality Amarone. Here, where the day is longer, the vines, which overlook Lake Garda, benefit from the refl ection of its light and its milder climate.