4 bottles per lot
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BERTANI
Founded in 1857, Bertani has been, and continues to be, one of the region's most important and influential wine producers in the Veneto. Brothers Gaetano and Giovan Battista invested their own funds to purchase the finest vineyards in the province. Unlike many producers Bertani was, and continues to be, able to control production from start to finish. Acinatico is composed of the blend of grapes used in contemporary Valpolicella and Amarone - Corvina, Mollinara and Rondinella - with the addition of Corvinone and Sangiovese. The 1928 vintage was exceptionally hot and dry, the grape skins were exposed to a particularly long maturation, which allowed an especially high sugar content. Aged in a single 60 hectoliter oak barrel, it was bottled in 1938 into specially purchased handmade bottles after nearly ten years of barrel aging. It was bottled into specially purchased handmade bottles. Two years later, with the beginning of World War II, German soldiers were lodging in the villa next to the Bertani cellars in Grezzana. To protect their best wine from consumption, the 1928 Acinatico was moved to the Saccole farmstead, which is owned by the Bertani family as well. The bottles were then walled in and forgotten about for forty years. Then, in 1984, workers doing construction on the property discovered this cache of wine. The wine was returned to the cellars at which time it was tasted and found to be extraordinary. It was decided that the wine would not be sold for profit and has been reserved for special occasions. With this in mind the Bertani family will donate the proceeds from the sale of this lot to charity.
Acinatico--Vintage 1928
Veneto (Negrar), Cav. G.B. Bertani
Levels: into neck; wax capsules
4 bottles per lot
Founded in 1857, Bertani has been, and continues to be, one of the region's most important and influential wine producers in the Veneto. Brothers Gaetano and Giovan Battista invested their own funds to purchase the finest vineyards in the province. Unlike many producers Bertani was, and continues to be, able to control production from start to finish. Acinatico is composed of the blend of grapes used in contemporary Valpolicella and Amarone - Corvina, Mollinara and Rondinella - with the addition of Corvinone and Sangiovese. The 1928 vintage was exceptionally hot and dry, the grape skins were exposed to a particularly long maturation, which allowed an especially high sugar content. Aged in a single 60 hectoliter oak barrel, it was bottled in 1938 into specially purchased handmade bottles after nearly ten years of barrel aging. It was bottled into specially purchased handmade bottles. Two years later, with the beginning of World War II, German soldiers were lodging in the villa next to the Bertani cellars in Grezzana. To protect their best wine from consumption, the 1928 Acinatico was moved to the Saccole farmstead, which is owned by the Bertani family as well. The bottles were then walled in and forgotten about for forty years. Then, in 1984, workers doing construction on the property discovered this cache of wine. The wine was returned to the cellars at which time it was tasted and found to be extraordinary. It was decided that the wine would not be sold for profit and has been reserved for special occasions. With this in mind the Bertani family will donate the proceeds from the sale of this lot to charity.
Acinatico--Vintage 1928
Veneto (Negrar), Cav. G.B. Bertani
Levels: into neck; wax capsules
4 bottles per lot