Adorato Appassimento
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2024
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Asian cuisine, rich seafood dishes such as seared scallops, and creamy pasta dishes like fettuccine Alfredo.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the historic Tommasi family, pioneers of the Veneto region since 1902, Adorato is a brilliant showcase of the traditional appassimento technique applied to white grapes. While appassimento is famous for producing bold reds like Amarone, Tommasi utilizes this ancient air-drying method on Garganega and Chardonnay grapes. The grapes are carefully dried for approximately one month, concentrating their natural sugars, acids, and aromatic compounds. This process yields a beautifully textured white wine, rich with aromas of wild honey, ripe peach, and tropical fruits, grounded by the mineral-rich volcanic and limestone soils of the Venetian hills.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1902 by Giacomo Battista Tommasi, Tommasi is an esteemed historic wine estate based in Pedemonte in the heart of the Valpolicella Classica zone of Veneto, Italy. Still owned and meticulously managed by the fourth generation of the Tommasi family, the estate has established itself as an international benchmark for authentic Northern Italian viticulture. The winery is renowned for its mastery of traditional regional winemaking techniques, particularly the native appassimento grape-drying method used to craft their powerful, long-lived Amarone della Valpolicella Classico and prestigious single-vineyard bottlings like Ca' Florian and Rafael. Alongside their iconic Valpolicella red wines, Tommasi produces refined Lugana whites, elegant Chiaretto rosés, and characterful dessert wines that celebrate indigenous varietals and historic terroirs.