Cantina Valpantena Torre del Falasco Corvina 2024

Cantina Valpantena Torre del Falasco Corvina

Region: Veneto, Italy

Vintage: 2024

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Corvina

ABV: 13%

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.

Run by Luca Degani since 1995, the Cantina Valpantena is now one of Italy’s best co-operatives, with 650 hectares of vineyards that produce excellent quality fruit. Matt Thomson (of Blank Canvas in New Zealand) makes some of the Alpha Zeta wines here and has worked closely with the Cantina since 1999, and with head winemaker Michele Peroni since 2013

https://cantinavalpantena.cantinediverona.it