Is Amarone della Valpolicella actually good?

Amarone della Valpolicella sits in the 90.9% percentile against every wine we rank, meaning it scores above 90.9% of them.

How does Amarone della Valpolicella compare to similar wines?

Within Red · Italien, Amarone della Valpolicella lands in the 82.3% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a wine for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Amarone della Valpolicella's score based on?

1,349 calibrated reviewers stand behind Amarone della Valpolicella's score.

Red · Amarone della Valpolicella · Italien

Casa Vinicola Bennati Amarone della Valpolicella

Name: Casa Vinicola Bennati Amarone della Valpolicella
Brand: Casa Vinicola Bennati

Scored from 1,349 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: Red · Italien (289 wines).

Grape · RondinellaMolinaraCorvina

90.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 69,234 ranked wines

82.3%

In-cohort percentile

Red · Italien · 289 wines

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AI-adjusted percentile

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Is Amarone della Valpolicella a good wine?

Tasting profile

Full-bodied and rich, with warm fruit notes of cherry and blackcurrant alongside deeper tones of chocolate, leather, smoke, and tobacco. Velvety on the palate with a dry, long finish and pronounced spicy character.

Synthesized from 1,349Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.

What reviewers say

“One of the best value/money/alco offerings!! You'll love its light fruity taste followed by a 'twist'”

From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.

Summary

Full bodied and smooth on the palette, Casa Vinicola Bennati Amarone della Valpolicella is the perfect easy drinking wine to enjoy over a catch up with friends. Revel in its rich, oaky notes of vanilla, tobacco and chocolate, balanced with black fruit notes of plum and cherry reminiscent of its ruby red hue. Featured in the top 25 of Italian wines in California right now, Casa Vinicola Bennati Amarone is recommended by our community to be enjoyed alongside rich dishes that match its deep flavor profile such as beef, lamb, game and strong blue cheese. However, it’s an excellent wine to savor on its own, take in all of the notes it has to offer and enjoy its long finish. Casa Vinicola Bennati Amarone is a dry Italian red wine from the renowned wine region of Veneto, Northern Italy. Known for its bold and ripe flavors, you can explore its vintages throughout the years, read reviews from our knowledgeable community and explore pricing here at Vivino.

Casa Vinicola Bennati Amarone della Valpolicella is a red from Amarone della Valpolicella, Italy. It blends Rondinella, Molinara and Corvina.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against 288 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole. 1,349 Vivino reviewers are calibrated for this bottle, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 1,390 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.

Cohort: Red · Italien · 289 wines
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Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Red · Italien

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