Zyme, Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Mattonara other_regions_italy The aromas were savoury roast

The aromas were savoury roast meat

This is a truly sumptuous wine that stands as a tall testament to the winemaking talents of Giampaolo Motta

Dry tannins on the end

It is too powerful and too tightly wound to take chances with

(from Les Seuvrées and Les Murots

Zyme, Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Mattonara other_regions_italy The aromas were savoury roastThis wine is seamless and fearless, and there's little else that really needs to be said about it, except that, at $850 per bottle, there's probably some more explaining to do. Packaged in a release of 4,500 heavy glass bottles, the Zm 2008 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva La Mattonara is a massive wine with wonderful exaggerations of ripe fruit, oak spice, dark aromas and thick texture. It all plays out beautifully in the end, and it will