Croatina in Valpolicella

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury

Deep ruby red with a broad, well-defined nose and a decisive but elegant taste, robust and intense in structure with excellent drinkability, a wine the estate says wins on character and balance.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative

Intense garnet red, with intense and complex scents of cherry and red fruits well married to pleasant spiced notes from the wood, and a round, structured palate carrying what the estate calls an extraordinary freshness and the potential for long evolution.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Fruity

Ruby red, revealing the classic aromas of cherry and small red fruits with floral hints, then soft on the palate with what the estate calls an extraordinary freshness.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Bold

Intense ruby red with garnet reflections, with the typical cherry and small red fruit scents alongside redcurrant conserve, well married to pleasant spiced notes from the wood ageing, and a soft palate balanced between freshness and tannic weave.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Fruity

Transparent and brilliant ruby red, with the typical cherry and small red fruit scents plus floral and spiced shadings, and a fresh, sapid palate whose fruited character integrates pleasantly with a delicate tannic weave.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative

Garnet red, intensely scented of sour cherry preserved in spirit, wild berries and spice, with a full, dry, velvety mouth built on three months of drying and two years in wood.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative

The estate's Riserva, garnet red with an intense nose of cooked fruit, dried prunes, sour cherries in spirit, tobacco and assorted spice including ginger, from a small, well-exposed cru at Castelrotto.

Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Contemplative

Corte Rugolin's sweet Recioto, made from the best bunches dried for three to four months in the fruttaio, in the traditional sweet style of the valley.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing · Fruity

Brilliant ruby with a fruited nose of cherry, sour cherry and plum and a pleasantly savoury, harmonious mouth: fresh, young and ready without needing long ageing.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Rustic

Made by refermenting the Valpolicella Classico on Amarone skins still wet with wine, a red of strong, decisive character with an intense bouquet of cherry, plum and conserve and notable staying power.

Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing · Refreshing

The estate calls it a fresh, fruity, food-friendly wine, a blend of the indigenous grapes that reflects the terroir it takes its name from.

Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Romantic

Intense red with violet reflections, an intoxicating nose of dried grapes, cherries in spirit and dried fruit closing on refined spice, and a mouth the estate calls fleshy and crunchy.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Savoury

Intense red with wide legs in the glass from the higher alcohols, recalling dried grapes on the nose with shifting, articulated scents closing on refined spice and balsamic notes, then fleshy, enveloping and extremely persistent in the mouth.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Funky

The estate's attempt to vinify Amarone in the most natural and traditional way possible: a hundred days of drying, hand destemming and crushing, indigenous-yeast fermentation in an oak truncated-cone vat with daily hand punch-downs, then five years in untoasted 700-litre oak with no filtration and no fining.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant

A deep ruby red, harmonious and sapid, with an intense and agreeable scent, drawn from the Ronchiel, La Costa and Monte Sant'Urbano vineyards and picked late at the end of October.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Funky

A 15-variety blend in the Veronese IGT classification, Harlequin is Gaspari's conceptual statement: every grape variety grown across Zyme's vineyards co-fermented after partial drying, producing a complex, layered wine with extraordinary aromatic diversity.