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Valentina Cubi 2001 Morar Red (Amarone della Valpolicella Classico)
- Editors' Choice
- $40
Valentina Cubi is a quality Amarone producer to look out for especially if you like big and brawny wines with skyscraping intensity. A beautiful Bordeaux-inspired cellar and barrique regimen has recently been installed and the producer is entering the market with four vintages at once. The 2001 is the youngest and boasts nutty spice, poached apple and pure…
— M.L.
(12/1/2007)
Valentina Cubi 2004 Morar Red (Amarone della Valpolicella Classico)
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Morar is a beautifully oak-aged Amarone that boasts shadings of vanilla, chocolate, mature fruit, pipe tobacco, molasses and leather. It’s a generous and complex bouquet that is made to linger even longer on your senses thanks to the natural intensity and richness of the wine’s texture.
— M.L.
(2/1/2011)
Valentina Cubi 2005 Morar Red (Amarone della Valpolicella Classico)
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Here’s a dense and modern interpretation of Amarone that scores high in terms of pleasure and personality. Ripe black fruit and loads of exotic spice with chocolate come forth on the bouquet; the wine is very soft and rich on the close.
— M.L.
(2/1/2011)
Valentina Cubi 1998 Morar Red (Amarone della Valpolicella Classico)
- $44
Oak aging imparts distinct notes of vanilla, spice and roasted coffee bean but the wine offers plenty more. There are nicely integrated herbal notes and you’ll pick up a hints of balsamic vinegar and caramel candy too. The wine delivers great intensity and good length over a firm, spice-driven finish.
— M.L.
(12/1/2007)
Valentina Cubi 2005 Arusnatico Red (Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso)
- $36
Valentina Cubi always does a fantastic job at creating well-extracted and opulent wines that show the potential of Valpolicella winemaking. This ripasso is thick and dark, with penetrating aromas of coffee, chocolate, mature fruit, spice and cola. It is equally rich and soft in the mouth with round, supple tannins.
— M.L.
(10/1/2009)
Valentina Cubi 2006 Morar Red (Amarone della Valpolicella Classico)
Amarone Morar is a bright, lively red wine that delivers fruit, but that also accommodates a steady flow of smoke, tobacco, drying mineral, cigar and asphalt-like aromas. Its texture is dark, dense and there’s a touch of chewy sweetness on the close.
— M.L.
(12/1/2011)
Valentina Cubi 1997 Morar Red (Amarone della Valpolicella Classico)
- $50
Although this aged Amarone offers rich notes of dried prune, spice, resin and leather, you should not wait to drink it. Behind the fruit notes are somewhat tired notes of old spice and dried flowers. It has firm tannins and good length.
— M.L.
(12/1/2007)
Valentina Cubi 2003 Morar Red (Amarone della Valpolicella)
- $69
Valentina Cubi is one of our favorite Amarone producers thanks to the fine line this husband and wife team draws between Old World and New World styles. The aromas here recall ripe fruit, red apple, spice, mesquite wood and dried herbs. This wine speaks the language of Valpolicella and imparts sweet, velvety tannins.
— M.L.
(12/1/2009)
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