Appassimento also assures higher alcohol; a typical Amarone these days checks in at 15.5% or 16% alcohol, resulting in a full-bodied, powerful wine that can often age for 20-25 years or even ...

a secondary fermentation of the wine on the dried skins of the grapes already used to make appassimento wines. Aged in oak ...

A rich, structured wine made in the Valpolicella region of northeastern Italy, just outside Verona, its production is characterised by the area’s traditional appassimento process, where ...