Loading... Please wait...We tasted it. It's awesome and not at all overdone or boozy/porty as wines made from dried grapes often are -- only 14.5%. Real (and good) Amarone (from Italy) rarely costs less than $50.
Got a nice mention in Forbes, too: ""This is a long-handshake-across-the-water collaboration between Allegrini of Italy's Veneto region and Renacer of Argentina. A densely filled-in red, chockfull of flavor--including suggestions of chocolate, raisin, violets, and marinated cherries--this is in fact a South American version of one of Allegrini's specialties, Amarone ("Enamore" isn't Spanish; it's an anagram)...The grapes are left to hang and perilously hang, slowly drying out on the vines (a process called apassimento in the Veneto). This yields super-concentrated berries that, carefully pressed, produce a big-bodied (here 15.4% alcohol) and very distinctive wine. The Argentine version is both more approachable at an early age--it's seductively drinkable right now--and less bitter than Amarone (whose very name means "big bitter"), which may not please purists. But those purists would be missing a genuine gem." New World Ringers, Hi-Lo Wine, Forbes, Richard Nalley.
The Wine Advocate's Dr. Jay Miller opines: "The 2007 Enamore is a blend of 60% Malbec, 23% Cabernet Franc, and the balance Syrah, Bonarda, and Cabernet Sauvignon. It was sourced from own-rooted vines over 50 years of age and aged for 12 months in seasoned French oak. A glass-staining opaque purple, it offers up a fragrant perfume of cedar, spice box, lavender, damp earth, and black cherry. Opulent on the palate, it is dense and sweetly-fruited with complex black fruit flavors, plenty of spice, ripe tannin, and a lengthy finish. Cellar it for 2-3 years and drink it from 2011 to 2019." 92 points, if you're keeping score.
It's that good. Really. Balanced too. You know us. We don't do fruit bombs. This ain't no fruit bomb. It's just plain delicious, layered, intense and interesting for normal people money wine.