Corteforte

Since 1990, Carlo Maria Cerutti has tended the three hectares of hillside vineyards surrounding his 17th century farmhouse, once the medieval fortress Corteforte, in the town of Fumane, in the Veneto. From his tiny production of indigenous grapes — Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella, and Molinara — he creates Valpolicella and Amarone of particular elegance, while still as bold and full of fruit and earth as tradition demands..