Bertani Amarone

 

BERTANI AMARONE

CANTINA BERTANI

VALPOLICELLA CLASSICO

BERTANI AMARONE

The STORY of BERTANI

The company was founded in 1857 by the two Bertani brothers, Giovan Battista and Gaetano. At that time the Veneto region and most of northeastern Italy were under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Giovan Battista and Gaetano joined the Italian unification movement and, wanted by the Austrians as subversives, had to flee from Verona. Gaetano went into exile in France, at that time the most advanced country in enological techniques. There he met Jules Guyot, one of the fathers of modern enology, and he became his disciple.

In 1866 Austrian troops, after bloody battles, left Veneto and Verona which became part of the newly born Kingdom of Italy.

Gaetano Bertani could return to Verona and started to apply in the vineyards and in the family's winery what he had learned in France. He introduced methods of vine cultivation more oriented to the quality of grapes than to quantity, he carefully selected vines, he applied the most modern enological technologies. The results were extraordinary, and Bertani's wines soon began to get awards and recognition in Italian and international wine fairs.

For the quality of its wines, in 1928 Bertani was awarded with the possibility to decorate its bottleeol with the emblem of Savoy as a supplier of the Italian royal house.

Bertani's Soave was in the list of wines served for the coronation party of King George VI of England in 1936.

AMARONE CLASSICO BERTANI

In the 1950's Bertani bought Villa Novare, a magnificent neoclassical building of the eighteenth century surrounded by vineyards in the heart of Valpolicella Classica, and started producing Amarone.

At that time Amarone did not have its own identity yet. It was considered as a dry variant of the sweet Recioto which was the most prestigious wine of Valpolicella.

Bertani was among the first wineries to understand the potentialities of Amarone and built around it its project of excellence. A careful cultivation and selection of grapes, a long drying process of grapes on mats and up to 10 years of aging in huge oak casks. These are the secrets which guaranteed Bertani Amarone an incredible longevity and evolution potential, still today its distinctive traits.

The results have contributed to create the popularity of Amarone and the Bertani myth all over the world.

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