| Producer | Tenuta Sant’Antonio |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Veneto |
| Subregion | Amarone della Valpolicella |
| Varietal | Corvina, Rondinella, Croatina, seleta |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | U1011284 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Amarone della Valpolicella is the most prestigious red wine of Veneto, and the four brothers who started Tenuta Sant'Antonio dedicate their primary Amarone to their father, Antonio Castagnedi. The best grapes from different vineyards are selected for this wine and brought to the winery's drying room for appassimento. After at least 3 months of drying, the grapes have shriveled and lost much of their water, while retaining their sugar, flavor, and other components. Once fermented and aged in new barrels, the Amarone is a powerful yet fruity, fresh, and clean wine.
The Castagnedi is darkly alluring, as crushed black cherries blend with shavings of Baker’s chocolate and sage. It is silken in feel, with a cascade of mineral-infused red berry fruits saturating the palate, all elevated by brisk acidity. The finish tapers off classically dry and gently tannic, leaving a pleasantly bitter tinge of cocoa and citrus that lingers. Drink 2025-2036.—E.G.
A producer that is riding high, crafting a line of intriguing wines across colors. This is full-weighted and a bit drying, et not without verve, lift and detail, despite the challenging nature of the very warm year. Reveling in a shroud of dark fruit, camphor, licorice root and bergamot, this is a powerful, smoky Amarone. The tannins are a bit blunt, but not necessarily because of the oak. Rather from a composite of heat and thick grape skins. Age may serve this well, but I’d drink this across the mid-term. Drink or hold.
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