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Seven years in wood before it was released.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorte San Benedetto is an eighteen-hectare family estate at Arbizzano di Negrar, in the Valpolicella Classico hills. The family has been making wine there since 1956 under grandfather Angelo; the current estate was formally founded in 2006 and is run by brothers Angelo and Loris with their father Mariano in the vineyards. Camporal is their Amarone Riserva, and it is made to a schedule almost nobody else keeps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Decanter accolade, precisely\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn May 2019 Decanter ran a panel tasting of Amarone Riserva, single-vineyard and special-selection wines, judged by Michael Garner, Andrew Jefford and Monty Waldin. They picked three wines as Outstanding, and Camporal was one of them, described in the write-up as \"the glorious Corte San Benedetto, Camporal 2009.\" The other two were Dal Forno's Monte Lodoletta 2012 and Brigaldara's Amarone Classico 2015. Camporal also made Decanter's year-end round-up of top panel-tasting wines, a list restricted to wines scoring 95 points and above out of 1,672 tasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo honest caveats. That accolade is for the \u003cstrong\u003e2009\u003c\/strong\u003e; Decanter did not review the 2008. And the exact point score sits behind Decanter's paywall, so what we can stand behind is \"Outstanding, 95 points or better,\" not a specific number. So we are quoting the verdict rather than a number.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it is made\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrapes from Negrar, San Pietro in Cariano and Marano di Valpolicella, between 100 and 400 metres on clay and limestone. After the appassimento drying, the wine spends \u003cstrong\u003ethree years in tonneaux and then four years in 30-hectolitre Slavonian botti\u003c\/strong\u003e. Seven years in wood. Amarone Riserva law requires four years of total ageing; this nearly doubles it, in two different vessel sizes, which is why the wine has both the sweetness of oak and the resolved, dried-fruit character of a large-cask wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIn the glass\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerona Wine Top's published note on the 2008 gives ruby garnet, a complex and powerful nose of black cherry, chocolate, sour cherries in syrup, spice, toast and balsamic hints, then an intense, soft, fresh palate with balanced structure and gentle tannins. 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