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
Established in 1902 by Giacomo Tommasi in the hillside hamlet of Pedemonte di Valpolicella, Tommasi has evolved across four generations into one of the most prominent family-owned wine estates in northeastern Italy. While anchored in the classic calcareous-limestone hills of Valpolicella Classica, the estate has expanded its viticultural footprint across prominent northeastern denominations, including the mineral-rich, glacial clay terraces of Lugana on the southern shores of Lake Garda, as well as classic terroirs across Delle Venezie. Led winemaking-wise by Giancarlo Tommasi, the house operates under strict sustainability protocols certified via Equalitas. Vinification balances regional heritage with precision oenology, championing extended wood aging in large Slavonian oak casks for its iconic Amarone della Valpolicella and the ultra-prestige single-vineyard De Buris Riserva, while delivering vibrancy and saline minerality through stainless-steel vinifications in white expressions such as Le Fornaci Lugana and Le Volpare Soave Classico.