Le Salette ★ 4.5

Monte dei Ragni ★ 4.7

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.

Corteforte ★ 4.5

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.

Monte dei Ragni ★ 4.7

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 Agricola ★ 4.7

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.

Corte Aleardi ★ 4.4

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 Igino ★ 4.4

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.

Zýmē ★ 4.8

Celestino Gaspari's cellar at San Floriano, cut into an old quarry, working Valpolicella and Amarone alongside experimental bottlings from rare local varieties.