Poja
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted red meats, wild game dishes, and mature, aged cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
La Poja is a legendary single-vineyard red wine born from the visionary mind of Giovanni Allegrini in 1983. Situated at the very crest of the prestigious La Grola hill in the Sant'Ambrogio district of Valpolicella, the La Poja vineyard is a unique, wind-swept plateau. Its soils are dominated by white, chalky limestone that reflects the sun's warmth back onto the vines. Breaking away from the traditional regional practice of blending and drying grapes, Allegrini chose to craft La Poja as a 100% Corvina Veronese monovarietal from fresh grapes. This bold decision showcased the true, unadulterated nobility of the Corvina grape. The wine is aged for approximately 20 months in new Allier French oak barriques, followed by significant bottle refinement. The result is a wine of extraordinary intensity, elegance, and complexity, marked by dark wild berries, spices, and a distinct mineral backbone.
🍾 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