Tenuta Chevalier Valpolicella Classico
Veneto, Italy
About the Wine
Chevalier is an organic small batch winery and, like many others in the Valpolicella, is on a main road in the town of San Pietro in Cariano. The winery has to be a hundred years old, with many signs of the way wine used to be made in this region.
Paolo Zardini’s vineyards are located in Negrar in the Classico D.O.C. Valpolicella zone, arguably the heart of Amarone. The soil here is what is the key in Paolo’s opinion. The soil has a high concentration of clay, marble-lime and tufaceous layers, making it very suitable to wine cultivation.
This wine undergoes a cryo-macertion and just stainless steel aging that lead to a freshness in the glass that is unlike the prevailing overextended style of most Valpolicella on the market.
