Michele Castellani ★ 4.5
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.
Small Valgatara estate run by Elena and Federico Coati from a restored courtyard farm, producing the four Valpolicella styles from the Marano valley slopes.
Address: Via Rugolin 1, Valgatara, 37020 Marano di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy
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.
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.
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.
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.
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