120 editor-picked Rondinella producers across 2 regions.
A guide to Rondinella worth seeking out, by region. We list the estates, how each region expresses the grape, and the bottles that show it best.
Negrar estate listed in the Consorzio Tutela Vini Valpolicella register as Az. Agr. Quintarelli Giuseppe di Quintarelli Fiorenza, at Via Cerè. The register carries no website for it, and the range runs to Amarone della Valpolicella Classico, Recioto della Valpolicella Classico and Valpolicella Classico Superiore.
Family cellar on Via Molino Turri in Negrar, run by Paolo and Giuseppe Bussola, working the Classico appassimento range of Valpolicella, Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto.
Hillside estate above Arbizzano di Negrar run by Paolo and Marco Galli, with Marta Galli as the third generation. The range covers Amarone Classico, Valpolicella Classico Superiore, Ripasso and Recioto.
San Peretto estate the Mazzi family has farmed since 1900, now run by Roberto's sons Stefano and Antonio. Guided visits take in the historic cellar with its water mill and the drying lofts.
Tasting: Guided cellar visit with a classic tasting including Amarone and Recioto, by appointment.
Claudio Viviani farms at Mazzano above Negrar on calcareous medium-textured soils, using the altitude and low humidity of the site for the appassimento that feeds his Recioto and Amarone.
Estate on the Jago hill in Negrar run by Enrico Cascella Spinosa, with the Albasini Amarone and a Recioto della Valpolicella at the head of the range.
Cooperative founded in 1933 at the mouth of the Negrar valley, with 240 members farming 700 hectares of vineyard across the Valpolicella Classico hills. It bottles under the Domini Veneti label.
The Gaetano Bertani branch of the family works from the Novare estate in Negrar, dating its winemaking to 1735 and covering Amarone Classico Riserva, Valpolicella Ripasso Classico and Recioto alongside Soave.
Small family cellar at Vigolo in Negrar producing Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto, plus an olive oil pressed from the trees standing in the vineyard.
Tasting: Cellar tasting hosted by the family, booked directly.
The Recchia family has grown grapes at Cà Bertoldi in Negrar since 1906. The family house doubles as the tasting room and the harvest for Recioto and Amarone starts in mid September.
Tasting: Guided visits and tastings at the family house in Negrar.
Valgatara estate working since 1902 under the Cà la Bionda name, farming organically across a range built on Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto.
Organic estate in the Novaia hamlet of Marano, a member of the Consorzio Tutela Vini della Valpolicella, the Strada del Vino Valpolicella and the Biodistretto della Valpolicella.
Small Valgatara estate run by Elena and Federico Coati from a restored courtyard farm, producing the four Valpolicella styles from the Marano valley slopes.
Pier Paolo and Stefano Antolini have farmed at Prognol in Marano since 1992, working about nine hectares of family vineyard between 150 and 350 metres, with a further plot at Semonte in San Pietro in Cariano since 1993.
Valgatara house bottling the I Castei and Ca del Pipa lines, from Valpolicella Classico and Ripasso Classico Superiore up to Amarone Classico and the Campo Casalin selection.
Boutique cellar perched at around 500 metres on the Marano hills, run by the fifth generation of the family across Valpolicella Classico, Superiore, Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto.
Family house at Valgatara whose certified organic estate vineyards sit alongside fruit from more than fifty contracted growers across roughly eighty hectares in the Marano comune, with a cellar visit programme.
Tasting: Cellar visit with a tasting of Valpolicella Ripasso, Valpolicella Superiore and Amarone.
Organic family cellar at Paverno in Valgatara. The whole family works the drying racks that feed the Recioto and Amarone.
The Degani family traces its Valgatara winemaking to the early 1900s and still handles drying, vinification and bottling in house across Valpolicella Classico, Superiore, Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto.
Fifth-generation Valgatara estate with 22 hectares across the Valgatara and Marano hills. The Gaso terraces at around 400 metres have been worked since 1870.
Fumane house whose vineyard holdings run to a little over 100 hectares in the Valpolicella Classico zone. Francesco, Giovanni, Matteo and Silvia Allegrini run it today, on the legacy of Giovanni Allegrini.
Tasting: Showroom and estate visits at Fumane, booked through the estate.
Marco Speri's own cellar at Campolongo in Fumane, with a deliberately short range: Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto.
Cottini family cellar at Ponte Scrivan in Fumane, three generations of growers handling the whole cycle from vineyard to bottle across Valpolicella, Ripasso, Amarone and the Carpane and Twenty selections.
Valentina Cubi and Giancarlo Nordera bought seven hectares at Casterna in 1969, now ten, on the Monte Tenda and Monte Crosetta slopes. The estate farms organically and runs an agriturismo.
Scamperle family estate in the centre of Fumane, working the Classico range from Valpolicella through Ripasso to Amarone and Recioto.
Estate in the Osan hamlet of Fumane with a tower and terraced hillside plots. Its Amandorlato Recioto della Valpolicella Classico sits between sweet Recioto and dry Amarone, and part of the range is certified organic.
Zeno Zignoli works six to seven hectares on the ridge that climbs from Bure at 220 metres to Mazzurega at 430 metres, land the Ragno family has farmed for five generations.
Masi works from Gargagnago in Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella and is the producer that replanted Oseleta in the early 1980s after phylloxera had all but wiped it out. Its Monteleone21 site next door handles visits.
Tasting: Tastings and estate visits at Monteleone21 in Gargagnago.
Ferrari family estate at Gargagnago that dates its winemaking to 1789 and is certified organic by ABCERT, with Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG at the head of the range.
Tasting: Wine tastings at the Gargagnago cellar.
Accordini family house in San Pietro in Cariano bottling the Le Bessole and Le Viole lines through Valpolicella Superiore, Ripasso Superiore and Amarone della Valpolicella.
Celestino Gaspari's cellar at San Floriano, cut into an old quarry, working Valpolicella and Amarone alongside experimental bottlings from rare local varieties.
Pedemonte house dating its wine trade to 1811, working from a Palladian villa with gardens and fountains and a recently rebuilt cellar.
Tasting: Booked hospitality experiences at the Pedemonte villa.
Three generations of the Nicolis family have made wine at San Pietro in Cariano since 1951, with the Seccal Ripasso Classico Superiore and the Ambrosan Amarone as the reference bottlings.
Carlo Venturini farms biodynamically at Castelrotto, vinifying each vineyard separately and fermenting Valpolicella in small steel vats and Amarone in wood. The Sant'Ulderico Recioto leads the range.
The Fumanelli family has made wine at Squarano for over five centuries. Its Amarone Classico and the Octavius Riserva are built on 40 percent Corvina, 40 percent Corvinone and 20 percent Rondinella.
Tommasi Family Estates is based at Ronchetto in San Pietro in Cariano and runs wine hospitality and wine tours from the Valpolicella Classico home estate.
Tasting: Wine hospitality programme and guided wine tours from the San Pietro in Cariano estate.
Seven generations of the Speri family in Valpolicella Classico, farming organically and running a visits programme alongside the Amarone range.
Tasting: Estate visits and tastings, booked through the winery.
Family house in San Pietro in Cariano with the Capitel Monte Olmi and Fabriseria Amarone Classico Riserva bottlings and the Maternigo estate in the eastern valleys.
Azienda Agricola Begali Lorenzo is a family operation of about twelve hectares in the small Cengia hamlet, named for the rock ledges above it, in the Valpolicella Classico zone.
The Cesari family has held Brigaldara since 1928. The property runs to over 120 hectares of which 48 are planted to vine, and the Amarone range includes the Case Vecie and Riserva bottlings.
Buglioni works vineyards in Valpolicella and Lugana from a base at Settimo di Pescantina, and runs its own osteria alongside the cellar.
Estate at Lodoletta in Cellore d'Illasi, in the eastern Valpolicella valleys, listed in the Consorzio Tutela Vini Valpolicella register. Its Amarone and its Valpolicella Superiore both carry the Monte Lodoletta site name, and being outside the Classico zone neither is labelled Classico.
Estate on Monte Tenda above Illasi producing since 1924 and certified organic for more than thirty years, across Valpolicella Superiore, Amarone and Recioto della Valpolicella.
Third-generation family holding of about 85 years standing in the comune of Illasi on the Mezzane valley side, run by Luca Anselmi and Sofia Kherkeladze, with an organic olive oil alongside the wines.
Flavio Pra's estate at Allodola in Cellore d'Illasi, a fourth-generation family holding that matches each variety to the plot that suits it.
Estate working since 1996 in the Val di Mezzane between 200 and 300 metres, with 16 to 17 hectares of owned vineyard plus two hectares of woodland and one of olives.
Marinella Camerani's estate at Cà Fioi in the Mezzane valley, registered with the Consorzio Tutela Vini Valpolicella as Azienda Agricola Camerani Marinella.
Estate in the Mezzane valley held by the Cracco family since 1883 and relaunched in 2003 under Camilla Rossi Chauvenet, with certified organic production, a relais, a fruttaio and a range of Amarone, Ripasso and Valpolicella.
The Morini family farms 45 hectares split between the Val di Mezzane and the Soave hills, with an organic line alongside the Leon Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG.
Three generations at Tregnago in the upper Illasi valley since Gino Marchi started in 1945, with a barrel room and bottle caveau open to visitors and a range from Durello sparkling to Amarone.
Tasting: Guided visit taking in the barrel room, the vinification hall and the bottle caveau.
Small estate at Borgo in San Martino Buon Albergo, in the southeastern Valpolicella zone, listed in the Consorzio Tutela Vini Valpolicella register.
Biodynamic estate of nearly 400 hectares around a restored sixteenth-century courtyard at Ferrazzette, part of the Triple A grouping since 2018, with a relais and a tasting programme.
Tasting: Tasting of Drago Rose Corvinone IGT, Drago Bianco Garganega IGT, Valpolicella Superiore Ripasso and Amarone from 30 euro per person.
Single block of 35 hectares in the Valpantena of which 17 are planted to vine and the rest to woodland and olives, producing Amarone della Valpolicella Valpantena DOCG from Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella.
Winery, wine resort and restaurant at Erbin above Romagnano in the Valpantena, with a converted hay barn now used as the Theatro events space.
Tasting: Cellar visits, restaurant and wine resort stays in the Valpantena.
House trading since 1857, now part of Angelini Wines and Estates, with its cellars at Grezzana in the Valpantena and a library of historic Amarone della Valpolicella Classico vintages.
Tasting: Winery store open Tuesday to Saturday, 9.30 to 13.00 and 14.30 to 18.00.
Valpantena growers at Poiano founded in 1960 and run since 1998 by cousins Federico, Flavio and Vanio Tezza, with organic Valpolicella Valpantena bottlings and the Brolo delle Giare Amarone and Recioto.
Pasqua Vigneti e Cantine works from Via Belvedere in Verona and is listed in the Consorzio Tutela Vini Valpolicella register, with an Amarone and Valpolicella range alongside its wider Italian portfolio.
Negrar estate at Casetta di Montecchio working the full colour range from pale Valpolicella Classico DOC through to Amarone, with Recioto still made from the bunches brought into the courtyard by cart.
Renaissance villa at Fumane designed by Giulio Romano and Michele Sanmicheli, bought by Marilisa Allegrini in 2008 and a working winery since 2019, with guided tastings in the mascaron rooms.
Eighteenth-century villa and cellar at Novare in Arbizzano, where Ippolito Pindemonte held his literary salon, with daily tours of the frescoed Salone delle Muse, the drying lofts and the brolo.
Shop and tasting counter of the 1933 Negrar cooperative, whose 240 members farm 700 hectares across the Classico hills, pouring the Domini Veneti selections beside the cellar itself.
The Tommasi family shop and visitor cellar at Pedemonte, open six days a week for tastings of the Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso and Amarone range including the Ca' Florian cru.
Cotti family cellar on the Fumane valley floor running three set tasting flights, from an entry white and Valpolicella pour up to the Amarone and Recioto selections.
Fifteenth-century fortified court at Osan above Fumane, tasting an unusual range that keeps the old Amandorlato style alongside Recioto, Ripasso and three Amarone bottlings.
Scamperle family cellar in the village of Fumane, pouring the Ca' Carnocchio and Pergole Vece Amarone selections in a working cellar rather than a visitor centre.
Marco Speri's own cellar at Campolongo in Fumane, working long macerations and large Slavonian casks for a deliberately traditional reading of Amarone and Recioto.
Enrico Cascella Spinosa's estate on the Jago hill above Negrar, where the Albasini Amarone has taken Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri and the villa also runs a chamber music festival.
Small family cellar at Crosetta in Negrar working the Poiega and Vigneto Calcarole plots, with tastings led by the family in the cellar under the house.
Claudio Viviani's cellar high at Mazzano above Negrar, where the Casa dei Bepi Amarone is bottled only in vintages the family judges worth it.
Hillside estate above Arbizzano replanted by Marta and Arnaldo Galli from the 1960s, tasting Valpolicella Classico Superiore and long-aged Amarone at the cellar.
Recchia brothers' cellar at Ca' Bertoldi in the Jago valley of Negrar, a straightforward family tasting across Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto.
Certified organic Vaona family estate on the Novaia terraces at Marano, where the tasting runs through Corte Vaona, Le Balze and the Amarone selections.
Brothers Pier Paolo and Stefano Antolini receive visitors at Prognol in Marano, pouring the Moropio and Ca' Coato bottlings from the high Marano terraces.
Campagnola family cellar at Valgatara farming 22 hectares on Veronese pergola since 1870, with tastings across the San Rustico and Gaso lines plus their Amarone grappa.
Certified organic Vaona cellar on Via Paverno at Valgatara, a short family tasting through Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso and Amarone in the working cellar.
Certified organic Castellani estate in the Bionda valley at Valgatara, tasting single-vineyard Ravazzol and Casal Vegri alongside the classic Valpolicella range.
Carlo Venturini and Alessandra Zantedeschi farm dry-stone terraces above Castelrotto biodynamically, tasting Saseti, Camporenzo and Sant'Ulderico in the old cellar.
Celestino Gaspari's cellar built into a disused sandstone quarry at San Floriano, worked since the fifteenth century, tasting the Kairos blend and the Oseleta-led reds underground.
Seventh-generation Speri family cellar at Pedemonte, certified organic, with tastings centred on the Monte Sant'Urbano single-vineyard Amarone and the Vigneto La Roverina.
Tedeschi family cellar at Pedemonte, known for the Monte Olmi and La Fabriseria crus and for replanting minor Veronese grapes such as Dindarella and Rossignola.
Lorenzo Begali's cellar at Cengia below the Castelrotto hill, where a booked visit walks the vineyard, the fermentation hall, the fruttaio and the cask cellar before a seated tasting of the estate's seven wines.
Marinella Camerani's biodynamic estate in the eastern valley of Mezzane, tasting Mithas and Valpolicella Superiore among the woods and pasture that surround the vines.
Camilla Rossi Chauvenet took over the 1883 family house at Mezzane in 2003 and turned it organic in 2008, with certification in 2014 and a tasting room beside the relais.
Small Fumane cellar on the Santoccio slope, worked at a scale that keeps every bottle in the family's hands and visits down to one group at a time.
Tip: Write ahead. The cellar is a working farm building at the end of a track above Fumane, not a visitor centre.
Family cellar on the Marognole terraces above Valgatara, named after the dry-stone walls that hold the slope and working the cooler Marano profile.
Tip: Combine it with Cà la Bionda and Vaona Odino: all three are within a few minutes of each other on the Valgatara side.
Family cellar and shop on Via Don Cesare Biasi in San Pietro in Cariano, open six days a week and unusual in the valley for taking walk-in visitors.
Tip: Open Monday to Saturday 08:30 to 12:30 and 14:00 to 19:30, which makes it the easiest unplanned stop in San Pietro in Cariano.
Estate on Via Valena at San Pietro in Cariano bottling the Valpolicella range plus its own Grappa di Amarone, well off the main visitor circuit.
Tip: Ask for the Grappa di Amarone at the end of the tasting; it is bottled from the estate's own appassimento pomace.
Lorenzo Begali's entry red from the Cengia slopes, fermented without appassimento and built for early drinking rather than cellaring.
Tip: The step up is Siora, the Classico Superiore, at roughly EUR 16 to 24. Taste both side by side at the cellar.
The Coati family's base Valpolicella from the Rugolin hamlet above Valgatara, the cheapest way into a cellar better known for its Amarone.
Tip: The SanGiorgio Classico Superiore sits around EUR 18 to 26 and is the bottling to take home if you have room for one.
Straightforward Valgatara red from the Degani family, sour-cherry driven and made for the table rather than the cellar.
Tip: Degani are on the Via dell'Artigianato at Valgatara, an easy stop between Marano and San Pietro in Cariano.
Cotti family Valpolicella from Fumane, described by the estate as harmonious and savoury with an intense nose, and the opening pour of the First Impressions flight.
Tip: Scriani ship from their own online shop, useful if you are travelling with hand luggage only.
Pier Paolo and Stefano Antolini's base red from the high Marano terraces at Prognol, a cooler site that keeps the acidity firm.
Tip: Persegà, the Classico Superiore, runs around EUR 18 to 26 and shows what the Marano altitude does with a longer ageing.
The Galli family's entry Valpolicella from the hillside above Arbizzano, from vineyards the family replanted from the 1960s onward.
Tip: Le Sassine, the Classico Superiore, is the next step at roughly EUR 20 to 30 and drinks well at five years.
Certified organic Valpolicella from the Vaona cellar at Valgatara, priced in the same band as the uncertified reds around it.
Tip: The label carries the organic certification mark. Ask at the cellar which parcels on Via Paverno went into the vintage.
Certified organic Valpolicella from the Casterna slope above Fumane, named after the Saint John's wort that grows in the vineyard.
Tip: The operating cellar is at Via Casterna 60 in Fumane even though the registered office is in San Pietro in Cariano.
Certified organic entry red from the Vaona family terraces at Marano, the lightest wine in a range that runs up to Amarone.
Tip: Novaia also bottle Fapulito, a second Classico at roughly EUR 14 to 20, from a separate parcel.
Certified organic Valpolicella from the Castellani brothers at Valgatara, the entry point to a range that includes the Ravazzol and Casalvegri crus.
Tip: Casalvegri, the Classico Superiore, is around EUR 20 to 28 and is the bottle to buy if you can stretch the budget once.
Claudio Viviani's base red from the high Mazzano vineyards, the same terraces that feed the Casa dei Bepi Amarone.
Tip: Mazzano sits high on the ridge above Negrar. The base Classico is the cheapest way to taste fruit from that altitude.
Marco Speri's entry red from Fumane, made in the same deliberately traditional register as the Amarone but without the drying.
Tip: This is the cheapest bottle in a cellar built on long macerations and big Slavonian casks, so it reads older than its price.
Biodynamically farmed Valpolicella from the dry-stone terraces at Castelrotto, the entry bottle from Carlo Venturini and Alessandra Zantedeschi.
Tip: Saseti is the estate's entry bottling. Camporenzo and San Giorgio Alto climb to EUR 20 to 40 and sell out at the cellar.
The Nicolis family's base Valpolicella from San Pietro in Cariano, a everyday Classico from an estate better known for its Ambrosan Amarone.
Tip: The cellar sits on Via Villa Girardi, a short detour from the SP4 as you drive up the valley.
A founding force in Valpolicella winemaking since 1857, Bertani codified the long-maceration Amarone style. Owned by Tenimenti Angelini since 2021 and still operating from the historic Novare cellars.
Tasting: Cellar tours and tastings bookable at the Novare estate; group and trade visits by appointment.
Signature wines: bertani-amarone-classico, bertani-valpolicella-ripasso
Founded by Sergio Zenato in 1960, this estate bridges two zones: the Valpolicella hillside estates east of Negrar produce Amarone, and the Lake Garda shoreline vineyards at Peschiera yield benchmark Lugana from Turbiana.
Tasting: Tasting visits at Peschiera del Garda; both Valpolicella and Lugana wines poured.
Signature wines: zenato-amarone-classico, zenato-valpolicella-ripassa
The Castagnedi brothers established Tenuta Sant'Antonio in 1989 in the Mezzane valley east of the Classico zone. Their Campo dei Gigli Amarone from Oseleta and Corvina is a benchmark for the sub-zone style.
Tasting: Estate tasting visits by appointment at Mezzane di Sotto; full range of Valpolicella and Amarone poured.
Signature wines: tenuta-santantonio-amarone-campo-dei-gigli, tenuta-santantonio-valpolicella-superiore
Soave cooperative founded 1898, representing 2,600 member growers across 6,000 hectares. Its premium Rocca Sveva line is entry-level access to the appellation; the visitor centre in town is walk-in friendly.
Tasting: Public tasting room open daily in Soave town; walk-in welcome.
Signature wines: cantina-soave-rocca-sveva
One of the oldest estates in Bardolino, with records dating to 1649, Guerrieri Rizzardi operates vineyards on both Lake Garda shores and in Valpolicella. The on-site Museo del Vino is one of Italy's leading wine museums.
Tasting: Wine museum Museo del Vino di Bardolino on-site; open daily including tasting flight.
Signature wines: guerrieri-rizzardi-bardolino-classico, guerrieri-rizzardi-tacchetto-chiaretto
Founded in 1889 at the Lake Garda waterfront in Bardolino, Cantine Campagnola is one of the appellation's oldest estates producing light, food-friendly Bardolino Superiore DOCG and a range of Valpolicella.
Tasting: Visits and tastings at the Bardolino cellar; daily opening.
Signature wines: campagnola-bardolino-classico, campagnola-valpolicella-classico
The Allegrini estate wine shop in Fumane is always open for informal tastings of Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso, Amarone della Valpolicella, Recioto di Valpolicella, and the innovative La Poja monovarietal Corvina IGT. Over 100 ha of family vineyards. Tel +39 045 6832011.
Tip: La Poja is a single-vineyard monovarietal Corvina available only at the estate and a handful of Verona restaurants - the walk-in shop is the easiest access.
Bertani's renewed historic tasting spaces preserve 45 vintages of Amarone della Valpolicella Classico alongside new contemporary design elements.
Tip: The Library Experience walks 45 Amarone vintages from 1958 onward. Plan three hours.
Opened 2025, Monteleone21 is Masi's new 'open cellar' paradigm in Valpolicella Classica. The Wine Bar 'Vino e Cucina' is walk-in accessible.
Tip: Arrive before 11:00 for structured tours; the Wine Bar opens at 12:00 for informal tastings with food pairings.
Boutique winery in Marano di Valpolicella with a 17th-century cellar used for wine refinement. Tasting room accessible via the Bike Station Valpolicella e-bike experience or standalone by appointment.
Tip: The 17th-century stone cellar maintains ideal ageing conditions for the Amarone - ask to see the oldest barrels in the back room during the tasting.
Massimago's estate tasting in the Mezzane Valley combines a walk through certified organic vineyards with a visit to the historic Amarone ageing cellar.
Tip: The organic certification and Mezzane sub-zone origin are the differentiators here - ask about the estate's transition to biodynamics.
The wine cellar tasting at Villa Cordevigo presents estate wines from Vigneti Villabella (Garda DOC and Valpolicella DOC). The wine and history experience package is curated for both hotel guests and day visitors.
Tip: The wine and history package pairs cellar tasting with a guided narrative of the villa and estate - book this format rather than standalone tasting for full context.
Tenuta Le Cave's organic and biodynamic cellar tasting presents Valpolicella, Ripasso, and Amarone from estate vineyards in Tregnago. The Wine Lovers package is the recommended format - combining vineyard walk, cellar visit, and discovery tasting of the full estate range. Biodynamic Amarone is the anchor.
Tip: Tregnago sits between Valpolicella and Soave - ask about the Lessinia influence on the estate's vineyard soils, which distinguishes the Le Cave style.
A tiny estate in Fumane making organic Valpolicella and Amarone by hand with no added sulfites in the cellar. Piccinin's wines are structured and earthy, beloved by the Italian natural-wine community.
Tip: The Valpolicella Classico is the entry point; ask at Verona wine bars like Osteria del Bugiardo whether they stock a current vintage.
One of Valpolicella's few Demeter-certified biodynamic estates, run by Carlo and Alessandra Venturini in Castelrotto. Long-maceration Valpolicella and Amarone with no fining or filtering; the wines age particularly well.
Tip: The Saseti Valpolicella Classico Superiore is the accessible entry wine; visit the estate in Castelrotto for a hillside tasting with Alessandra.
A pale onion-skin rose from Guerrieri Rizzardi (estate records from 1649) on the eastern shore of Lake Garda. Fresh strawberry and white cherry aromas, vibrant acidity and a dry, clean finish. A versatile Chiaretto di Bardolino for food pairing.
Tip: The ideal outdoor wine for an aperitivo on the Garda lakeshore; drink in the year after harvest.
Masi's Bonacosta is one of the most consistently available entry-level Valpolicella Classico on the market. Light garnet, cherry and plum fruit with the signature bitter-cherry note of Corvina; soft tannins for everyday enjoyment. An ideal introduction to the Valpolicella zone before exploring Ripasso and Amarone.
Tip: Masi's Campofiorin (Ripasso style) is the natural step up from Bonacosta; try them side by side to understand the appassimento effect.
A serious Valpolicella Classico Superiore from Le Ragose in Arbizzano, a family estate established in the Classico zone in 1969. The Superiore designation requires longer ageing and higher minimum alcohol; this wine shows dried cherry, spice and a darker fruit character typical of hill-grown Corvina at concentrated levels below Amarone.
Tip: Le Ragose's Valpolicella Superiore is an excellent cellar introduction to the estate before investing in their Amarone; shows the same hillside DNA at a fraction of the price.
The entry Valpolicella Classico from Marinella Camerani's Demeter-certified biodynamic estate in Mezzane di Sotto. Light and precise, showing fresh cherry, herbs and the estate's characteristic biodynamic vitality.
Tip: An ideal gateway wine for natural-wine drinkers discovering Valpolicella; shows how the appellation can produce light, precise reds from biodynamic hillside farming.
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