Marinella Camerani farms the Mezzane valley estate biodynamically, with woodland and pasture kept alongside the vines rather than cleared for them.
Tip: Visits are arranged by email at [email protected] rather than through a booking form.
Address: Via Cà Fioi 1, 37030 Mezzane di Sotto, Verona, Italy, Valpolicella
Camilla Rossi Chauvenet runs the Mezzane estate on certified organic production across the whole range, from the Valpolicella through the Ripasso to the Amarone.
Tip: The estate publishes its organic certification on its own history page; visits and the wine bar garden are booked through the relais.
Musella runs a biodynamic programme across an estate that mixes vines with woodland and pasture at San Martino Buon Albergo, with the relais on the same land.
Tip: The estate publishes its biodynamic approach under the Cantina section, alongside the vineyard and scores pages.
The Castellani brothers hold organic certification on the Bionda valley holdings at Valgatara, including the Ravazzol and Casalvegri single-vineyard parcels.
Tip: Casalvegri is the certified organic Classico Superiore to taste against the base wine at the cellar.
The Vaona family hold organic certification across the Novaia terraces at Marano, from the base Valpolicella up to the I Cantoni Classico Superiore and the Amarone.
Tip: Novaia is a certified organic estate in Marano that runs a proper booked tasting programme, which is not the norm at this scale.
Speri farm their Pedemonte and Sant'Urbano holdings organically, and hold certification across the whole estate rather than on selected parcels.
Tip: The Monte Sant'Urbano single vineyard is the estate's organic flagship and the wine most tastings are built around.
Camilla Rossi Chauvenet runs the Mezzane estate on certified organic production across the whole range, from the Valpolicella through the Ripasso to the Amarone.
Tip: The estate publishes its organic certification on its own history page; visits and the wine bar garden are booked through the relais.
Vaona Odino bottle their Valpolicella Classico under an organic certification mark, priced in the same band as the uncertified reds of Valgatara.
Tip: The Valpolicella Classico Biologico is the label to look for; the organic mark is on the front.
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