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Buglioni - Amarone Riserva Testa Dure 2010 (750ml)

Price: $249.99

Case Price (3): $749.97

Producer Buglioni
Country Italy
Region Piedmont
Varietal Corvina
Vintage 2010
Sku 05121
Size 750ml
 Sustainable 

Buglioni Description

Varietal Composition: 60% Corvina, 15% Corvinone, 10% Rondinella, 10% Oseleta, 5% Croatina

Tasting Notes

Intense ruby-red in color with garnet shades. Intense and elegant cherry, ripe fruit and spices aroma, with scents of vanilla, tobacco and licorice. Taste is full and velvety, soft and enveloping. This is a wine for meditation; a leading actor. It is traditionally paired with game and mature cheeses. For a very special sensory experience, try it with bitter chocolate 85%. Serve at 18˚ C (65˚ F). Uncork for at least 4 hours before consuming or leave it for 1 hour and decant back in bottle before serving.

Decanter: 96 Points

t started in 1993, with 3ha of vineyards; now Buglioni has 54ha. This riserva is made only in the best vintages, with the best hand-picked grapes. aged for 30 months in tonneaux, it has tertiary notes of balsam, dry leaves, sweet tobacco and jam. Bramble fruits and summer fruit pudding surround the taste buds. Intense, elegant and poised, with great length and huge structure. Try it with bitter chocolate or enjoy it on its own.

Andrea Briccarello, January 2021

Wine Enthusiast: 92 Points

Inviting aromas of ripe dark-skinned berry, new leather, cocoa and forest floor emerge from the glass. The concentrated palate doles out black currant jam, licorice, black pepper and tobacco alongside fine-grained tannins. Drink 2019–2027.

James Suckling: 91 Points

Intense soy-sauce and cooked-plum nose that won’t be for everyone, but on the palate this is rich and silky. Good length. Drink now with mature hard cheeses.

Wine Advocate: 91 Points

The 2010 Amarene della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Teste Dure is extracted, inky and soft. The wine is showing some maturity and evolution, with licorice and tar behind primary notes of dried blackberry, plum and raisin. I would suggest a slightly reduced drinking window as a result, maybe pairing it alongside lamb with balsamic reduction. The next time this Riserva was made was 2015, and the folks at Buglioni have been experimenting with whole-cluster fermentations and amphorae aging too. So far, they are happy with the results, so we will surely see these methods used in upcoming releases.

Monica Larner, September 30, 2019

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