Deep ruby in colour, with a warm & spicy bouquet of dried cherries, dense fruit cake & raisins. Well-structured, complex, elegant & velvety on the palate with plenty of fine fruit character & toasty oak. Intense & powerful finish. The Allegrini familys southeast facing vineyards are located in the Valpolicella Classico hills at 180-280m above sea level. The soils are varied, but mostly chalky, stony & well-drained. The older vines are 30 years old on average, pergola trentina trained, with about 3, 000 vines per hectare. Newer vines are single Guyot trained with about 5, 000 vines per hectare. 80% Corvina Veronese, 15% Rondinella & 5% Oseleta.