The Grola pays homage to the territory with the first Grola. It sounds like a play on words, but no. Because Allegrini’s Grola has grown up, Sissi Baratella‘s word. And gives us the first Grola Valpolicella Classico Superiore.
The Grola has grown-and I’m talking about the vineyard, not the wine!
The vineyard, through the awareness of those who interpret it between vineyard and cellar, is ready to give the first Grola Valpolicella Classico Superiore, vintage 2022..
It’s about time, I would say. Because for one of the most beautiful vineyards in Valpolicella Classica not to produce appellation of origin wines seemed like a defeat for the appellation itself. La Grola is this, a vineyard first and foremost. An extraordinary place that never ceases to amaze you. Among the few hills in the area that allow you a 360-degree view. The apex, as it should be, is inhabited by the La Poja vineyard where Corvina Veronese gives life to Poja, Allegrini’s iconic Igt wine. On the crags to the west and north of the hill, on the other hand, rise the vines for Grola, which I would honestly not call iconic (there have never been so many prima donnas as there are now…) but rather Grola is “one of us.” A comfort wine which talks about Valpolicella, now also officially on the label.
Representative of the name, of the history of the Allegrini family, summarizing a journey of growth and awareness. One of us because he faced a path, a journey, among adversity, doubts and comfort zones. Today Grola becomes an appellation of origin wine, changing the pitch slightly in terms of blend and number of bottles, although they remain consistent and do not just make us dream of tasting it. Grola has grown, grown big, just as it has grown the third generation of young Allegrini, courageous no doubt but also very aware, strong in the choices of previous generations.
A process, growth, that is inevitable, resulting in a tribute to the land
Loaded with emotion but also ambition this project looks to the future. This is also confirmed by the technical choices in terms of packaging for example. A new lighter bottle (420 g). A’ 100% cotton label, FSC-certified packaging, low-impact Derma capsule and a certified cap to reduce TCA. Finally, the image, renewed not only in name (from La Grola, which is now just the vineyard, to Grola, which becomes wine) and always homage to the land. Unveiled to the public for the first time at Vinitaly 2025; also at Vinitaly 2025 Grola was distributed exclusively and as a national preview to restaurants in Verona. Just a warm-up that in the Verona area, a preamble to what will be the Allegrini tour throughout the year to present Grola Valpolicella Classico Superiore throughout the country with dedicated events.
Giovanni Allegrini in the late 1970s had had the audacity to plant and produce in the hills, later it was Walter and Franco To search for an identity. Now it’s the cousins’ turn Silvia, Francesco, Giovanni e Matteo carry forward with their technical team the style with which they not only identify but think the whole denomination can identify and be inspired. This is not arrogance, nor is it daydreaming; it is reality seasoned, certainly, by ambition. Forty thousand bottles a year make Grola solid and able to preside over the Italian and foreign markets.
In a present of distress for red wines, therefore, there is a return to strengthen the foundations. With the territory participating and involved, inevitably ambassadors of the project.
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