Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Le Balze 2011
Amarone della Valpolicella (Veneto)
Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella, Oseleta
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Red Wine |
Score: ✧✧✧✧✭ |
![](/images/g_appearance.png) Intense ruby red and nuances of garnet red, little transparency.
![](/images/g_nose.png) Intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant, starts with hints of blackberry, plum and dried violet followed by aromas of blueberry, chocolate, tobacco, licorice, cinnamon, mace, leather, vanilla and menthol.
![](/images/g_taste.png) Tannic attack and however balanced by alcohol, full body, intense flavors, pleasing roundness.
![](/images/g_finish.png) Persistent finish with flavors of blackberry, plum and black cherry.
![](/images/g_aging.png) 36 months in cask, 8 months in bottle.
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Alcohol: 16%
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Game, Roasted meat, Braised and stewed meat, Hard cheese
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Suggested glass ![Full Bodied and Very Mature Red Wines](/images/glasses/g07.gif) |
18 °C (64 °F) |
(Full Bodied and Very Mature Red Wines) |
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December 2018 |
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1997 |
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Issue 6, March 2003 |
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2005 |
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January 2012 |
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2009 |
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July 2015 |
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2011 |
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December 2018 |
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