The Manara 2017 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Corte Manara has a note of candied fruit or cherry lollipop that gives lift to the bouquet. Aromas associated with Amarone are often quite spicy and savory in character, but this wine makes a good play for the primary fruit. To the palate, it shows thick texture and soft tannins. It ends with a powerful 16% alcohol content. This is a 20,000-bottle release.

The Manara 2016 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Corte Manara is a dark and richly layered blend of mostly Corvina and Rondinella that sees up to three months of appassimento. It offers a powerful bouquet with dark fruit, tar, smoke and mesquite. Two years in botte has helped to flesh out the wine's dense fiber and soften the tannins. The wine was inaugurated with the 1960 vintage, and today 21,000 bottles are produced.

The 2013 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Corte Manara is straightforward and not as profound as some of its peers. The fruit especially shows less depth, but it does provide the requisite dosage of solid dried plum, dried cherry and prune. The blend is 70% Corvina, 20% Rondinella and 10% Molinara, which undergoes 100 days of appassimento. With 5.5 grams per liter of residual sugar and 16% alcohol, you get the power and the natural sweetness of Amarone in full force, and you might want to temper that power with a big plate of pasta and ragù. The wine ages in large oak casks of Slavonian oak for 24 months. Production stands at 14,000 bottles.