Vaona Odino ★ 4.4

San Rustico ★ 4.5

Fifth-generation Valgatara estate with 22 hectares across the Valgatara and Marano hills. The Gaso terraces at around 400 metres have been worked since 1870.

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.

San Rustico ★ 4.5

Fifth-generation Valgatara estate with 22 hectares across the Valgatara and Marano hills. The Gaso terraces at around 400 metres have been worked since 1870.

Allegrini ★ 4.8

Fumane house whose vineyard holdings run to a little over 100 hectares in the Valpolicella Classico zone. Francesco, Giovanni, Matteo and Silvia Allegrini run it today, on the legacy of Giovanni Allegrini.

Tasting: Showroom and estate visits at Fumane, booked through the estate.

Secondo Marco ★ 4.6

Marco Speri's own cellar at Campolongo in Fumane, with a deliberately short range: Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto.

Scriani ★ 4.5

Cottini family cellar at Ponte Scrivan in Fumane, three generations of growers handling the whole cycle from vineyard to bottle across Valpolicella, Ripasso, Amarone and the Carpane and Twenty selections.

Valentina Cubi ★ 4.5

Valentina Cubi and Giancarlo Nordera bought seven hectares at Casterna in 1969, now ten, on the Monte Tenda and Monte Crosetta slopes. The estate farms organically and runs an agriturismo.