Amarone recomendations

snipped-for-privacy@jetson.com ha scritto:

1995 and 1997 are both classified as excellent vintages, such as 1998 and 2000. However, being in Italy, I would say that generally speaking 1997 and 2000 were quite hot summers, originatin bold wines... adding to Amarone's boldness... Among other producers in the mid-price range, I like Roberto Mazzi, while I would avoid Speri. Clearly top Amarone names would be Quintarelli, Dal Forno and so on...

ciao

bacca

Thanks for the recomendations. I will give Mazzi a try. Can I ask what your fellings are about Pasqu as a producer? I had never heard of them until I tried thier 95 amarone in a resteraunt at a waiters suggestion. Definitely one of the top 3 wines I've ever had. I'm just wondering why I had never heard of them before. Even now I don't hear thier name mentioned much.

Alan

snipped-for-privacy@jetson.com ha scritto:

Pasqua is one of the 20 leading Italian wine producers, with nearly 20 million bottles produced/year. I actually don't remember having tried any of its wines. However, in Italy you can find very easily its products in super/hypermarkets (not amarone, obviously) and he generates large volumes of mid-priced basic bottles (Valpolicella, Soave). I know he has some product lines "cru", and surely the quality this production is good, but as far as I know he is not standing out for the quality of his amarone. I think that you don't hear Pasqua name in the newsgroup because it is a bit considered a "large volumes ~ mid-price ~ mid-quality" kind of proposition.

ciao

bacca

Thank you for the feedback. If I liked thier amarone so much and they are mid-quality, then I am really excited to try some of the higher quality amarones. I should really like them.

Alan