Costasera
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2033
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-braised beef cheeks, mature cheeses like Parmigiano-Reggiano, and hearty game dishes such as roasted wild boar.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the sun-drenched, sunset-facing slopes ('costasera') of the Valpolicella Classica region in Veneto, Italy, Costasera is a legendary expression of Amarone. The name itself pays homage to these privileged hillside vineyards that benefit from the late afternoon sun and the tempering breezes of nearby Lake Garda. Crafted using the ancient 'appassimento' method, the grapes—primarily Corvina, Rondinella, and Molinara—are carefully harvested and laid to rest on traditional bamboo racks throughout the dry winter months. This natural dehydration process concentrates the sugars, acids, and aromatics, resulting in an incredibly rich, complex, and full-bodied red wine. Following a slow fermentation, the wine is aged in noble oak casks, developing its signature profile of dark dried fruits, cocoa, and warm spices, deeply rooted in the winemaking heritage of the Veneto.
🍾 About the Producer
Marchesi Antinori is one of the world's most storied winemaking dynasties, tracing its commercial viticultural heritage to 1385 when Giovanni di Piero Antinori matriculated into Florence's Arte dei Vinattieri. Spanning twenty-six generations, the family revolutionized modern Italian viticulture under Marchese Piero Antinori and legendary enologist Giacomo Tachis, catalyzing the Super Tuscan revolution with the pioneering release of Tignanello in 1971. Antinori commands an unrivaled tapestry of microclimates across Central Italy, encompassing the galestro and albarese marls of Chianti Classico at Tenuta Tignanello and Badia a Passignano, the maritime gravels of Bolgheri at Guado al Tasso, and the fossiliferous clay-limestone soils of Umbria at Castello della Sala. In the cellar, CEO and chief enologist Renzo Cotarella orchestrates a balance of precision, clonal selection, and judicious French oak barrique maturation. Antinori's benchmark wines—including the Sangiovese-driven Tignanello, the Cabernet-dominated Solaia, and the benchmark Umbrian Chardonnay blend Cervaro della Sala—stand as definitive monuments of Italian winemaking refinement.
🍇 Grapes
Corvina (45-95%), Corvinone, Rondinella