Musella - Amarone della Valpolicella 2016

A great Amarone della Valpolicella made only from native grapes.

Soil: red clay and tuff, calcareous soil

Grape varieties: Corvina, Rondinella, Oseleta and Corvinone. No international grape varieties.

After a careful selection of the best bunches, they are taken to a special ventilated room for drying, during which the grapes lose 50% of their original weight. The sugars are concentrated, as is the substance of the wine.

In February, a soft pressing takes place and the fermentation is spontaneous via pied de cuve with a long maceration.

Aged for 12 months in tonneaux in large oak barrels and another 12 months in cement tanks. It rests for 8 months in the bottle before leaving the cellar.

We are in Verona, Valpolicella Classica, in San Martino Buon Albergo. The Musella winery was born with the Pasqua family from Bisceglie, who have always been involved in the world of Veronese viticulture. The winery is surrounded by a true paradise, a natural reserve, that of Monte del Drago, between 25 hectares of land divided between vineyards, forests, flowers and spontaneous plants, where the fauna of the woods is free to move. Today the company is managed by Maddalena Pasqua from Bisceglie, who since her entry has brought a dynamic and bio-dynamic change within the winery and production.

In the vineyard, the dictates of biodynamic agriculture are followed, and in the cellar, the same principles are followed, paying the utmost attention to the creation of clean, elegant and fine wines without the aid of invasive chemicals. The containers used for fermentation, strictly spontaneous with indigenous yeasts, and for the refinement of the wines are large oak barrels that are almost no longer toasted, cement and porcelain eggs and containers built specifically in red Verona marble, to make the grapes, which grow on the red earth that covers the nature reserve, feel as at home as possible.

The harmony of the cellar and the Relais where you can stay, also remains within the wines made by Maddalena, guardian of a unique reality.