Fratelli Degani ★ 4.5
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.
Where to taste Garganega in Valpolicella: the estates that grow it, how the region expresses the grape, and how to book a visit.
Garganega estates in Valpolicella
Marchesi Fumanelli ★ 4.6
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.
Roccolo Grassi ★ 4.7
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.
Ilatium Morini ★ 4.4
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.
Musella ★ 4.6
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.
Villa Mosconi Bertani ★ 4.8
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.
Cantina Valpolicella Negrar Wineshop ★ 4.4
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.
Scriani ★ 4.5
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.
Secondo Marco ★ 4.6
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.
Novaia ★ 4.6
Certified organic Vaona family estate on the Novaia terraces at Marano, where the tasting runs through Corte Vaona, Le Balze and the Amarone selections.
Zýmē ★ 4.8
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.
Corte Sant'Alda ★ 4.7
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.
Massimago ★ 4.6
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.