Allegrini La Grola 2022
£37.95
The wine
La Grola is one of Allegrini’s celebrated single-vineyard wines, from a south-east facing hillside in Valpolicella Classico. Built around Corvina and Corvinone with a little Rondinella, and aged in oak to add structure and polish.
Deep and expressive, it shows ripe black cherry and dark berry fruit, sweet spice and a savoury, mineral depth, with supple tannins and a long, elegant finish. A serious red that drinks beautifully now and will reward a few years in the cellar.
A natural with roast and grilled meats, game, lamb and hard cheeses. Give it a little air if drinking young.
The producer
Allegrini
View all Allegrini winesFew names carry the weight in Valpolicella that Allegrini does. The family has farmed these hills above Verona since the sixteenth century, and from their home at Fumane they have helped define what great wine from the region can be. The modern estate, shaped by the visionary Giovanni Allegrini, set a standard that others still follow.
The vineyards lie in the heart of Valpolicella Classico, in the foothills of the Lessini mountains and within the cooling reach of Lake Garda. Across some 150 hectares of morainic and calcareous slopes, Allegrini farms a collection of named sites, each with its own character, alongside holdings in Lugana on the lake.
Allegrini built its reputation on the idea of the cru, the single vineyard given over to a single wine. La Poja, a pure Corvina grown on a chalk plateau, was the first of its kind; La Grola and the ingenious Palazzo della Torre followed. Above them all stands the Amarone, widely held to be the benchmark for the style, rich yet linear, powerful yet poised, and prized as much at the table as in the cellar.
Whether it is an easy-going Valpolicella, a textured Lugana or a profound Amarone, every Allegrini wine is estate-grown and shaped by the same blend of tradition and quiet innovation. This is Valpolicella at its most serious and most rewarding.
