Amarone della Valpolicella and Taurasi: two powerful Italian red wines shaped by different traditions. Amarone della Valpolicella and Taurasi are two of Italy’s most authoritative red wines, yet they achieve power through radically different paths. Amarone comes from Veneto and is defined by appassimento, the controlled drying of harvested grapes before fermentation. Taurasi comes from Campania and is built primarily from Aglianico, a naturally tannic, high-acid, late-ripenin

Taurasi DOCG is Campania’s great long-lived red, produced from Aglianico in seventeen municipalities of the Calore valley in Irpinia. High-altitude vineyards, marked temperature shifts and clay-limestone soils with volcanic influence give the wine dark fruit, acidity, powerful tannins and exceptional aging potential.