Ca dei Maghi Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG, Italy 2016 Bannockburn spice and wet stone

spice and wet stone

tight nose

but it never loses the elegance and minerality for which these wines are rightly famed

As well as the Grande Vin

Ca dei Maghi Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG, Italy 2016 Bannockburn spice and wet stoneAnother exceptionally refined amarone from Paolo Creazzi. It's fairly muted on the nose, but translucent flavours in the mouth. Bitter orange and orange bitters, gentian and dried plums, iodine and tamarind powder. It's dry, spicy and the tannins fill the mouth the way a violin fills a cavernous concert hall, achingly elegant, soaring, but you can feel them with your whole body. The substantial alcohol is so beautifully melded into the fabric of the