Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Le Balze 2009
Valpolicella (Veneto)
Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella, Oseleta
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Red Wine |
Score: ✧✧✧✧✭ |
![](/images/g_appearance.png) Brilliant ruby red and nuances of garnet red, little transparency.
![](/images/g_nose.png) Intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant, starts with hints of blackberry, black cherry and dried violet followed by aromas of plum, blueberry, vanilla, tobacco, chocolate, cinnamon, licorice, mace 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, black cherry and plum.
![](/images/g_aging.png) 36 months in barrique, 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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July 2015 |
Other Vintages |
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Readers |
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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