2010 Dal Forno Romano, Monte Lodoletta AMARONE della Valpolicella
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2010 Dal Forno Romano, Monte Lodoletta AMARONE della Valpolicella

279,00 €
372,00 € / litre
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15,0% Vol.

Red wine

RobertParker.com: 98 /100

Climate-controlled storage


Wine from Italy
Bottled by: Azienda Agricola Dal Forno Romano, d'Illasi, Località Lodoletta, 1, 37031 Cellore VR, Italien
159731

Contains sulfites

2 in stock

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98 /100 RobertParker.com, Drink Date: 2019 – 2040
This is a deeply communicative and articulate wine that boasts immense power and persistence. The 2010 Amarone della Valpolicella Monte Lodoletta is a creation of enormous beauty and unflinching intensity. The wine speaks at loud volumes with black cherry, spice, tarry smoke, barbecue marinade and grilled rosemary. Those balsam notes add length and continuity to the bouquet. In the mouth, the wine is complete and penetrating. It wraps thickly over the palate to soothe and entice your taste buds. Yet there is enough crispness to keep it from feeling cloying or too heavy. There is a point of tannic astringency on the finish that will accompany this wine over the next decade of its aging evolution. For that reason, it’s best to wait before popping the cork on this memorable vinous experience.
95 /100 RobertParker.com, Drink Date: 2018 – 2035
This was an excellent vintage in much of Italy, but unfortunately the weather was not as pleasant in this specific area of the Valpolicella. The season saw a lot of rain, and a good amount of fruit was cut and left on the ground because it could not be used. Considering these difficulties, Michele Dal Forno tells me he is “more than happy with the results.” I tasted the 2010 Amarone della Valpolicella Monte Lodoletta next to the 2009 vintage, and having these two wines side by side reinforces just how different they are. The 2010 vintages is sharper, more pointed and direct in comparison, and there is a tiny point of sourness on the close. This wine does not reach the same threshold for fullness, density or richness. It does come close. The wine’s residual sugar measures between 5 and 6 grams per liter, which is normal for this wine, and the bouquet is redolent of familiar black fruit, raisin and spice. However, the wine feels a bit stuck in its tracks at the moment and is evidently experiencing a shy phase in its evolution. It has retreated.