This wine is made with a traditional Amarone blend that sees Corvina and Corvinone Veronese in starring roles with a smaller part played by Rondinella, and it has a full 100 days of drying in the fruttaio. The 2013 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Caterina Zardini is a full-bodied and powerful Amarone to pair with an aged T-bone steak on the grill. This wine produces heavy layers of dark, dried, jammy fruit with prune, plum and raisins followed by Indian spice, barbecue smoke and a brushing of delicate balsam herb or cola on the mid-palate. The seven grams per liter of residual sugar (with 15.5% alcohol) add to the wine's distinctively powerful mouthfeel and full-bodied texture. It ages in barrique for 18 months, with the fruit sourced from a 36-hectare property located in Marano di Valpolicella. About 20,000 bottles were made.