Cesari Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Bosan - 2015 (750ml)

Bosan Amarone is produced from a single vineyard of 5 hectares located in the heart of the Valpolicella Classico DOCG. Concentrated and full-bodied, Bosan displays jammy, raisined fruit flavors. Ripe red cherry notes envelope the palate, while subtle cocoa and vanilla notes follow on the lengthy finish. The finest dried fruit is vinified in stainless steel using the traditional Amarone production method unique to the Valpolicella and then aged in a combination of French and Slavonian oak barrels for 3 years.

97 points Decanter World Wine Awards BEST IN SHOW

This is the fifth Amarone to feature in our Best In Show selection, and the second Amarone from the excellent vintage of 2015. Not far off its 10th birthday, then – yet still opaque, with ample aromatic notes of maturity evident in the glass, as well as the burnishing attentions of three years in oak. The fruits (plum, prune, fig) seems almost roasted, which is one reason why the oak seems to meld so well with them, but there’s plenty else in the aroma, too, including tar, liquorice and citrus zest. It’s large-scaled in the mouth and secondary in style, so look to enjoy the spiced chocolate complexities and dark, brooding, dried-fruit asperities of this wine before too long. As always with Amarone, it's complex and unpredictable; this is one wine style for which no two tasting notes are ever quite alike. A delicious tale of the unexpected.

93 points Wine Spectator 

A lovely, balanced red, with a sanguine thread of iron, tar and loamy earth underscoring concentrated notes of dried lavender and thyme, sassafras root, strawberry puree, and spiced orange peel. Fine-grained tannins bring a chalky texture to the otherwise long and silky finish. Corvina and Rondinella. Drink now through 2040. 4,000 cases made, 300 cases imported. - Alison Napjus