Tasting: Amicone Cantine di Ora

Name: Amicone Cantine di Ora

Variety: Corvina

Region: Veneto

Country: Italy

Year: 2018

Price: $19

Shop Review: "Cantine di Ora Amicone 2018 is produced from mostly dried Corvina grapes done in the Amarone style but for a shorter period of time. The wine juice was fermented in stainless steel tanks and aged up to eight months in French oak barrels. This is a dry, medium-plus-bodied and plushy red with lots of ripe red berry, dark cherry, vanilla, smoky oak spice and chocolate flavours with rich dark cherry on the finish." https://www.nataliemaclean.com/wine-reviews/cantine-di-ora-amicone-2018/332067

Personal Review: This was also another bottle of wine that my grandfather got for my family when he visited in early January, and this was also very exciting since I really have not had that much Italian wine before. When I first smelled the wine, it smelled like straight-up chocolate which was pretty weird to me since I could not smell anything else besides that; it was a very overpowering smell. When I first tasted the wine, it was also very full-bodied and a little bit dry. I tasted some fruity aspects of the wine like cherry that I couldn't smell before, but it also tasted exactly as it smelled, like chocolate. This was another favorite in my opinion because I love fruit and chocolate mixed together. 

References from Wine Folly:

• Aromas: https://winefolly.com/deep-dive/where-wine-flavors-come-from/ (Pages 3, 5)
  
• Flavors: https://winefolly.com/deep-dive/how-to-taste-wine-develop-palate/ (Pages 14-16)
• Varietal Characteristics: https://winefolly.com/grapes/corvina/ (Pages 1-2)

I did not have any food with this wine.