Bardolino is located on the south-east shore of Lake Garda. In the hierarchy of Italian wine regions, it tends to be at the lower end. This was not always the case. There were times when the wines of the region were in no way inferior to those of Valpolicella. But then, at some point towards the end of the last century, more and more tourists from Germany and Austria came to the lake, who wanted local colour but wanted to spend as little as possible. This prompted many winegrowers to make the fatal decision to switch from quality to quantity. The result was and is a glut of wines that cost little but also taste accordingly.
Daniele Delaini has been countering this development for 20 years now, quite alone but all the more impressively. The Avresir is a paradigmatic example of his endeavours: his flagship is certainly and without false modesty one of the great red wines of the Veneto. The vines - Corvina, Rondinella & Molinara - grow on a small hill in barren calcareous soils around the winery. They produce a minimal but high-quality yield, are organically cultivated and, of course, harvested by hand. After fermentation, the wine remains in wooden barrels for over two years before being bottled unfiltered. The bottles then spend another year in the villa's cellar to mature perfectly.
Data sheet
Grape variety: Corvina, Rondinella, Molinara
Cultivation method: organic
Vineyard: Möranen soils
Harvest: by hand
Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts, in wooden barrels
Ageing: 2 years in used barriques
Filtration: no
SO₂: <30mg/l
Alcohol content: 13.5% vol.
Closure: Natural cork
Perfect drinking maturity: from now - 2035
Content and price per litre: 0.75 l/(€48.12/l)
All the winegrowers listed on Vinonudo work with compost, organic fertilisers and natural preparations in their vineyards and do not use herbicides, pesticides or artificial fertilisers.
