11 editor-picked estates growing Oseleta in Valpolicella.
Where to taste Oseleta in Valpolicella: the estates that grow it, how the region expresses the grape, and how to book a visit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brothers Pier Paolo and Stefano Antolini receive visitors at Prognol in Marano, pouring the Moropio and Ca' Coato bottlings from the high Marano terraces.
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.
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.