CORVINA

The Corvina of Montetondo is perhaps the most interesting wine in the estate's range for the informed wine enthusiast — a 100% Corvina that treats the grape which forms the backbone of all Valpolicella, Ripasso, and Amarone production as a standalone variety worthy of single-varietal expression. This is not a wine that the Valpolicella appellation typically accommodates in monovarietal form, and Montetondo's decision to produce it as a pure expression is a statement of genuine confidence in what Corvina can achieve on its own terms.

Corvina Veronese — the variety's full name — is the most widely planted red grape in the Verona hills and the defining component of all the area's great red wine designations. Its natural qualities include high acidity, bright colour, fresh cherry fruit, and a particular herbal-spice aromatic dimension that makes it instantly identifiable in any blend in which it plays the dominant role. In monovarietal form, these qualities speak with a directness that blended production distributes across the other varieties' contributions.

The 100% Corvina of Montetondo presents with fresh cherry, blackberry, and black pepper hints — the variety's most characteristic aromatic signatures when vinified without the softening influence of Rondinella and Molinara. Medium-bodied with moderate acidity — the profile that Corvina in purity achieves most naturally, the acidity refreshing rather than challenging, the body present but not imposing.

This is Corvina as it rarely appears — not as the backbone of something more ambitious, but as the protagonist of a wine that makes the case for the variety's own intrinsic quality. A wine for those who want to understand the Valpolicella tradition from its most essential component.

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