Recioto della
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Dark chocolate desserts, aged blue cheeses like Gorgonzola, and traditional dry pastries or cantucci.
✨ Technical Specifications
Deep in the rolling hills of Valpolicella Classico, Allegrini crafts this legendary sweet red wine, dedicated to the family's patriarch, Giovanni Allegrini. Recioto is the ancient soul of the region and the historic predecessor to Amarone; local lore tells us that Amarone was actually born from a forgotten barrel of Recioto that fermented completely dry. Made from hand-harvested Corvina Veronese, Corvinone, Rondinella, and Oseleta grapes, the fruit is dried on traditional racks during the cold winter months in the appassimento process. This concentrates the sugars, acids, and aromatics before a slow fermentation is carefully halted to preserve its luscious natural sweetness, resulting in a velvety, complex nectar of wild cherries, dark chocolate, and warm spices.
🍾 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.