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.
Vineyards in San Pietro in Cariano
Santa Sofia ★ 4.5
Pedemonte house dating its wine trade to 1811, working from a Palladian villa with gardens and fountains and a recently rebuilt cellar.
Tasting: Booked hospitality experiences at the Pedemonte villa.
Nicolis ★ 4.6
Three generations of the Nicolis family have made wine at San Pietro in Cariano since 1951, with the Seccal Ripasso Classico Superiore and the Ambrosan Amarone as the reference bottlings.
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.
Tommasi Viticoltori ★ 4.6
Tommasi Family Estates is based at Ronchetto in San Pietro in Cariano and runs wine hospitality and wine tours from the Valpolicella Classico home estate.
Tasting: Wine hospitality programme and guided wine tours from the San Pietro in Cariano estate.
Begali ★ 4.6
Azienda Agricola Begali Lorenzo is a family operation of about twelve hectares in the small Cengia hamlet, named for the rock ledges above it, in the Valpolicella Classico zone.
Brigaldara ★ 4.7
The Cesari family has held Brigaldara since 1928. The property runs to over 120 hectares of which 48 are planted to vine, and the Amarone range includes the Case Vecie and Riserva bottlings.
Tasting Rooms in San Pietro in Cariano
Begali ★ 4.5
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.
Distilleries in San Pietro in Cariano
Accordini Igino grappa range ★ 4.2
Accordini Igino at San Pietro in Cariano close their range with two grappe, a Grappa Bianca and a Grappa Riserva, distilled under contract from the estate's own pomace and bottled under the estate label. The cellar has no still.