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Offer Nº 003 · This week · 65 bottles

Nº 003

Natale Verga Amarone

Amarone della Valpolicella · Veneto · Italy
Sixty-five bottles remain
$24.50Shelf $19.99MadWine

Above what we paid · below what anyone else will ask

Amarone usually opens near twice this. Our own shelf had it at $24.50. Under twenty is the point.

Bottles

Twelve bottles make a case.

Pickup or shipping

No fee, no minimum, no commitment. Everyone gets one bottle before anyone gets two. You’re charged only when we confirm.

Request logged. We confirm within the week.

Gone when they’re gone.

The story

The story of Offer Nº 003

I The Racks II The Wait III The Wine

“Dried on racks. Patience does the rest.”

Amarone starts as a delay. After harvest in the Valpolicella hills, the grapes go to racks in the drying loft — appassimento — and for months the air does the work. A third of the water leaves. The sugar and the dark stay. Then, and only then, the press.

This lot waited on us too: two hundred fifty days quiet in our Seattle cellar. Sixty-five bottles remain, and an Amarone under twenty dollars is not a sentence we expect to write twice.

The mechanism

How it works

I

The email lands

One or two a week, noon Pacific. Each one a wine, each wine a story.

II

You request

Bottles or cases. No fee, no minimum, no commitment.

III

We allocate fairly

Confirm, then pick up at Esquin — or we ship your case in a weather window.