Antolini Vini: wine is material, sensorial, historical and poetic culture.

Amarone Ca' Coato, vintage 2007, won the silver medal in the competition "The Selection of the Mayor" (www.selezionedelsindaco.it/ see page 7/15). The ceremony took place on the 10th August at the shrine of Santa Maria Valverde of Marano di Valpolicella.

We worked in the vineyard: we prepared the penultimate terrace of Ca' Coato Vineyard in order to plant new vines.

On the 12th January you are invited to visit and tasting our wines at our vinery. See the attached program: places are limited.

Our Amarone Ca’ Coato 2006 was judged the best mellow Red Wine by AIS from Belluno (the Italian Association of Sommeliers) during the 6th edition of a competition among the wines of the three Italian regions Friuli, Veneto and Trentino Alto Adige. 27 wineries participated at the competition with 56 wines.

Dear friends, Roberto Gatti tells about the visit in our cellar on his website: www.winetaste.it. Paolo Gatti and Marco Massobrio decreed our Amarone Moròpio 2006 among the "100 best wines of Italy 2010": www.clubpapillon.it.

Dear friends, it’s a pleasure inform you that our Amarone Moròpio 2006 won the Silver medal at the international Oenological Contest called "La Selezione del Sindaco" (Selection of the Mayor: www.selezionedelsindaco.it). The prizegiving took place on the 10th August 2010 during the event "Calici di Stelle" (Cups of Stars) at the shrine of Santa Maria in Valverde (Marano di Valpolicella).

From the 8th to the 12th April, for the first time, we were at Vinitaly with Sobrero, an extraordinary producer of Barolo wine (www.sobrerofrancesco.it).

On the 30th May, we participated to “Cantine Aperte” (Open Cellars), organized by Movimento Turismo Vino. Our guests appreciated our wines combined with the traditional biscuits “Sfogliatine al Recioto” made by a team of pastrycooks called “Gruppo Pasticcieri Veronesi” and cheese and salami by Latte Lessinia. We organized a visit to the vineyard near our farm too. We presented the first vintage, 2006, of our new Amarone “Ca’ Coato” produced with grapes obtained by vineyards in San Vito, near Negrar.

Good news on DECANTER about our Valpolicella DOC Classico Superiore Ripasso 2006... But it's sold out: what a pity!

From the 21st to the 23rd March we were at PROWEIN fair, pavilion 3 - stand L21.

You could taste our "Amarone Moròpio" (vintage 2005) and our Recioto (vintage 2006) at "Ai Torcoli" restaurant during the initiative called "3 strade per mille sapori" (3 roads for 1000 flavours, from the 29th January to the 21st March).

Amarone della Valpolicella DOC Classico Morópio and Valpolicella DOC Classico Superiore Ripasso won the Bronze Medal at “Decanter World Wine Award”.

Dear friends, it’s a pleasure for me to tell you that our wines received a good review in MERUM magazine (May-June 2009).

It’s a pleasure write you about a good review in DECANTER magazine (April 2009 on pag. 106): VALPOLICELLA CLASSICO SUPERIORE RIPASSO 2006 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED **** (4 STAR).

On May we decanted the wine from the barriques and barrels in order to make the blend for the next bottling "Ripasso 2007", "Amarone Moròpio 2006", "Amarone Ca’ Coato 2006" (first vintage) and "Theobroma 2007". In the same time we filled the barrels with "Ripasso 2008", "Amarone Moròpio 2008", "Amarone Ca’ Coato 2008" and "Theobroma 2008" which must to be rest for a long time.

On the 31st May, we participated to “Cantine Aperte” (Open Cellars), organized by Movimento Turismo Vino.
Our guests appreciated our wines combined with the traditional biscuits “Sfogliatine al Recioto” made by a team of pastrycooks called “Gruppo Pasticcieri Veronesi” and cheese and salami by Latte Lessinia. We organized a visit to the vineyard near our farm in order to discover the vines and flowers too.

On the 31st January and 1st February we were at the event called "Anteprima Amarone 2005" (Preview about Amarone 2005) in Verona at Palazzo Giusti.

Our wines were at "Salone del Gusto" from the 23th to the 27th October in Turin.

There was an exhibition dedicated to "marogne" (dry stone walls) from the 31st October until the 9th November in the "Colleggiata" of the church of San Giorgio Ingannapoltron (near Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella).

It's a a pleasure for us to tell all our "web friends" that Erica and Riccardo were married on the 18th October 2008. We wish they'll live a lot of wonderful moments together and we thank them to choose our wine as a keepsake of this special day.

We participated to "Sms Divino" ("divine sms" or "sms about wine"), an initiative organized by " Regione del Veneto" and "Fondazione Aida". Fore more information you can see www.sorsidautore.it.

As the last year, we participated to Cantine Aperte, organized by Movimento Turismo Vino on the 25th May. Our guests could appreciate our wines combined with the traditional biscuits “Sfogliatine al Recioto” made by a team of pastrycooks called “Gruppo Pasticcieri Veronesi” (www.sfogliatinealrecioto.it) and with cheese and salami by Latte Lessinia. We also organized a visit to the vineyard near our farm.

On the 2nd May we participated to a tasting called "Il Castello Divino" (the Divine Castle) organized by "DI. ZAK Distribuzione" in St. Martin's Castle (Priverno, LT). For more information see the attached file on the right.

Dear Friends, with a lot of patience we restructure the old “marogne” (dry stone wall) in Cà Coato in Negrar country. The work is very hard but the result is wonderful (news 2008.02.26).

On the 20 and 21 October we were at “DolceVi”, a manifestation about national and international raisin wines organized in the villa "La Favorita" in Ponticello di Fara of Sarego (Vicenza). For more info www.dolcevi.com.

On the 30th May we presented our wines in Rome. Valpolicella Classico, Valpolicella Superiore, Recioto and Amarone were appreciated combined with cheese made by "Latin Lat" and told by sommelier Lorena Mazzolini.