While the style of Amarone has existed in the region for centuries, it was very rarely made as a deliberate wine style. Mostly it was produced in warm vintages when batches of wines destined for sweet recioto were unintentionally allowed to ferment completely dry.
Basil grows between 30â130 cm (12â51 in) tall, with opposite, light green, silky leaves 3â11 cm (1.2â4.3 in) long and 1â6 cm (0.39â2.36 in) broad. The flowers are small, white in color and arranged in a terminal spike.
Although Greek in origin--in the fourth century, a bishop by that name established the principles of the Greek Orthodox Church--Basil for years took on the aura of aquiline-nosed upper-class Britishness of Sherlock Holmes portrayer Basil Rathbone, then spiced with the fragrant aroma of the herb that entered with the Pesto generation.