Cantina Valpantena Torre del Falasco Corvina Verona 2023
Bright and fresh on the nose, this wine opens with perfumes of juicy red cherries. Youthful with a soft, approachable structure that is given depth by the partial drying process, this is a well-balanced wine with lovely bitter cherry notes on the finish.
The grapes for the Corvina Veronese are grown on the steeply terraced, hillside vineyards belonging to the co-operative, which are situated 100-300 metres above sea level. The vines are Guyot trained on marl and limestone soils.
After a brief drying period, the grapes were destemmed, crushed and cooled before they were pressed. After a gentle maceration, fermentation took place in stainless-steel tanks at temperatures between 22-28°C. The wine was then decanted, filtered and stored in stainless steel tanks. Transferred in concrete tanks; there was one final filtration before bottling. There was no oak used in order to highlight its fresh, youthful characteristics.
| RRP | £11.49 |
| Bottle size | 75cl |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Alcoholic strength | 13% |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Veneto |
| Grapes | Corvina 100% |
| Residual sugar (g/l) | 5.4 |
| Vegetarian | No |
| Vegan | No |
| Organic | No |
| Biodynamic | No |
| Closure | Screwcap |
Run by Luca Degani since 1995, the Cantina Valpantena is now one of Italy’s best co-operatives, with 700 hectares of vineyard that produce excellent quality fruit. Matt Thomson makes some of the Alpha Zeta wines here and has worked closely with them since 1999.
Known as the ‘valley of god’ to the ancient Greeks, the Valpantena is well known for its quality red wines, due partly to the limestone soils, but also because of the cool breeze that blows down the valley from the foothills of the Dolomites.
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