Giovanni Allegrini
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Dark chocolate desserts, aged blue cheeses such as Gorgonzola, and traditional dry pastries like Venetian Sbrisolona.
✨ Technical Specifications
Dedicated to the legendary patriarch of the estate, the Giovanni Allegrini Recioto della Valpolicella Classico is a profound testament to Veneto's ancient winemaking traditions. Giovanni Allegrini was a tireless innovator who helped redefine the Valpolicella region, and this sweet red wine—the historic precursor to Amarone—was his personal favorite. Crafted from hand-selected Corvina Veronese, Corvinone, and Rondinella grapes grown in the prestigious hills of the Valpolicella Classico zone, the fruit undergoes 'appassimento' (drying on traditional bamboo racks) for several months to concentrate sugars, acids, and flavors. Fermentation is carefully halted to preserve its natural sweetness, followed by maturation in oak casks. The resulting wine is rich, velvety, and deeply aromatic, carrying the legacy of a man who lived for his vineyards.
🍾 About the Producer
Rooted in Fumane since the sixteenth century and established as a formal agricultural estate in 1854, Allegrini stands as a definitive pillar of modern Valpolicella viticulture. The estate was radically modernized during the mid-twentieth century by Giovanni Allegrini, whose pioneering vision replaced traditional pergola veronese with Guyot training and shifted regional emphasis to single-cru terroirs. Encompassing over 150 hectares across Valpolicella Classica and expanding into Lugana, the estate's topographies feature steep, southeast-facing limestone-clay hillsides and high-altitude chalk plateaus. Viticulture emphasizes sustainability, certified under Equalitas and Biodiversity Friend frameworks. In the cellar, Allegrini mastered modern appassimento, minimizing oxidation while capturing intense aromatics and silky texture. Benchmark expressions include the monumental Amarone della Valpolicella Classico, the historic single-vineyard La Grola, the pure Corvina benchmark La Poja, and the innovative double-fermented Palazzo della Torre, alongside the versatile, contemporary tier of regional bottlings under Corte Giara.
🍇 Grapes
Corvina (45-95%), Corvinone, Rondinella