Zenato Amarone Classico Riserva Sergio Zenato Doc 2019 750ml

96 James Suckling A dark and multilayered wine with aromas of plums, marzipan, leather and dried flowers enhanced by black pepper. Full-bodied, it shows density and ripe, velvety tannins with flavors of fruit and spices. Refreshing and long. 

96 Wine Enthusiast Excellence earning its signature. Purple fruits and violets create perfect tension while dark cherries and wild berries add their concentrated voice. The palate brings that rare combination where power meets finesse, four grapes working in harmony after months of careful drying. Time in large oak barrels has turned intensity into elegance. When a wine lives up to its maker's name.

95 Wine Spectator There’s lovely purity to the damson plum, black raspberry and cassis fruit flavors, joined by fragrant notes of sweet tobacco, cedar, vanilla and smoked paprika. Though generous and expressive, this finely tailored red avoids any feeling of weightiness, showing precision balance with the integration of refined tannins and mouthwatering acidity. Long and silky on the mineral- and spice-laced finish. Corvina, Rondinella, Oseleta and Croatina.

92 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate In the bottle with the distinctive brown paper label, the Zenato 2019 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Sergio Zenato is powerful, and that's an understatement. With a high octane 17% alcohol content, this is a real bruiser with an inky black appearance, impossibly thick concentration and an abundance of over-the-top black fruit flavors. Everything about this vintage points to ripeness, extraction and phenolic mass. It is a lot to take in.