2016 Allegrini - Fieramonte Amarone della Valpolicella Classisco Riserva DOCG

Decanter.com – 100 pts – GH: *Another astounding wine from Allegrini, if you didn't buy Fiermonte last year here's a chance to buy something just as good. The most gorgeous nose; full of flowers, chocolate truffles, red fruits and dried berries - fragranced and just so inviting, also so pure. The texture and mouthfeel are just perfect - round, enveloping, the perfect weight to give structure and body with intensity and fleshiness yet nothing is over the top or too much. Delicious crunchy and fleshy fruit, wonderful minty freshness with accents of incense fragrance, wood spice and exotic spices before a lingering chalky finish with an underlying saltiness. Pure, precise, clearly defined, juicy, totally moreish. What more can you ask for? A little less friendly and overtly charming than the 2015 at the same time last year, this carries more muscle, opulence, power and boldness but it has exceptional forward motion and freshness. It delights and enthralls in equal measure from the first sip! Just wow! A blend of 45% Corvina, 45% Corvinone, 5% Rondinella and 5% Oseleta.* - 08/2023

Falstaff Magazin – 97 pts – OK, SS: *Leuchtendes, intensives Rubinrot. Duftende und ausdrucksstarke Nase, nach reifen Brombeeren, getrockneten Zwetschken, Zimtstange, Edelholz, Milchschokolade, Rosinen, sowie gedörrtes Rosenblatt. Am Gaumen mit toller Finesse und Eleganz, breitet sich ölig über die Zunge, mit eng verwobenen, druckvollem Tannin, baut sich extrem lange auf, im Ausklang pikant, mit leichtem Alkohol.* - 10/2023

Vinous.com – 97 pts – EG: *The 2016 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Fieramonte captivates. It opens with a minty freshness complicated by hints of tangerine and dill, giving way to mentholated black cherries and a dusting of cocoa. This is cool-toned and sleek, with a measured inner sweetness and racy acidity to balance. Polished red and blue fruits sweep across the palate with ease, leaving a bitter tinge of espresso and mocha that resonates toward the close. Tactile mineral tones ground the experience to the earth just as a web of fine-grained tannins settles in, leaving a classically dry tension. The 2016 finishes with tremendous length and potency. Allegrini continues to take the Fieramonte to new heights, and while many producers in Valpolicella prefer their 2015s over their 2016s, I must say, the balance here is otherworldly. This is not to be missed.* - 12/2023