Bertani - Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2015

From their earliest days, the trailblazing Bertani brothers stood out for their entrepreneurial drive and innovative spirit, establishing the Bertani winery as one of the first in Italy to realize the value of bottled wine while also making huge investments in quality viticulture and winemaking. In fact, Gaetano’s friendship with Burgundy’s Dr. Jules Guyot afforded their young enterprise the benefit of his cutting-edge vineyard methodologies and vine training techniques — revolutionary at the time in Valpolicella. They were also one of the first Veronese producers to export their wines on a significant scale. Modern and forward thinking, even then. Deeply traditional but always contemporary, Bertani is still at the forefront of what the Veneto can, and should, be. Their Soave was famously served at the coronation of King George VI in 1937. They also pioneered the production of Amarone della Valpolicella in the 1950s — then called Recioto della Valpolicella Amarone — before it was recog