Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Savoury
Intense ruby red, with berry fruit and sultana on the nose and a fresh, sapid palate carrying light tannin and a gentle spice, from Pier Paolo Antolini's favourite varieties.
Cuvées
Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Romantic · Elegant
Golden yellow with amber reflections, intense and persistent in flowers, ripe white-fleshed fruit and almond, recalling apricot, honey, orange blossom and vanilla, then warm, soft, full and structured with a base of acidity holding it in balance.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
Lively ruby red, with a delicate, vinous and fragrant red-fruit nose and a sapid, frank and pleasant palate carrying live acidity and moderate tannin.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
Ruby to cherry red, with a fresh and fruity nose and a light, fruity and soft flavour: a young wine the estate says adapts well to any situation.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Refreshing · Festive
Straw yellow with golden reflections and a fine, persistent perlage, with delicate scents of freshly baked croissant crust and echoes of exotic fruit and citrus, then vigorous and enveloping on the palate with a lashing, crystalline acidity.
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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
The estate's look beyond the Valpantena, a Lugana from the clay flats south of Lake Garda, first made in 2020.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity
Fresh fruit on the nose with floral notes of violet, elegant and light with the extraordinary freshness and drinkability the estate aims for in its entry red.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Romantic · Contemplative
A rare white passito from Dal Forno, made from dried Moscato and Garganega grapes at the Illasi valley estate, applying the same concentration philosophy as the Amarone to a sweet white with orange blossom and apricot intensity.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Refreshing
A dry red made by soft pressing with destemming, fifteen days of maceration with three hand punch-downs a day, and steel storage before bottling, at 13 percent alcohol and 5.7 grams per litre of total acidity.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Refreshing
A Valpolicella Superiore whose simplicity is the point: fresh red fruit, floral notes and a little spice from the varieties, with delicate tannin and freshness balanced by softness.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Refreshing
Ruby red with an almond scent and tones of rose and cherry, fresh and dry on the palate and pleasantly tart, a young wine of moderate alcohol to be drunk within a year or two.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Fresh and fruity but elegant at the same time, a varietal Molinara rosato the estate positions as versatile at table and easy on its own.
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.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
A Trebbiano-led white with Garganega and Incrocio Manzoni, one of the two whites the Fumanelli family makes at Squarano alongside its Valpolicella reds.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
A fifty-fifty blend of Garganega and Trebbiano Toscano, the simpler of the two Fumanelli whites and the everyday counterpart to the estate's Valpolicella reds.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Funky
Ruby, with small red fruits, iris flower and rose on the nose, then a palate where freshness and salinity dominate with minty notes and crunchy spice.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Funky
Straw yellow, with white flowers, citrus notes and grapefruit seed on the nose and great freshness and sapidity on the palate, an easy-drinking, thirst-quenching bottle-fermented white.
Nicolis Lugana
4.2
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
Bright yellow with greenish reflections, with ripe fruit and floral notes and a full, mineral, enveloping palate of great persistence and elegance.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity
Pale bright pink, fruity and floral with cherry, redcurrant and dog rose, then fresh, sapid and elegant with a pleasant balance, made from a short press maceration and a cool eight-day fermentation.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity
Medium-intensity ruby, fresh and fruity with cherry and marasca, then good body with marked acidity, a bitter-almond edge and a sapid, harmonious close.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Funky · Refreshing
Novaia's no-added-sulphite Valpolicella, made with indigenous yeasts and about two months of post-fermentation maceration, staying medium-bodied, sapid and fresh.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity
Medium ruby and lively when young, with a fragrant nose of delicate flowers, fresh black cherry and warm spice, then a medium-bodied, sapid and well-balanced palate with soft tannin and good acidity.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
Brilliant ruby with a fragrant, intense and very fruity scent and a dry, harmonious taste, from the Ronchiel and La Costa vineyards in the Fumane valley.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Refreshing
Luminous ruby, elegant and aromatically complex for its level, with fruit and prevailing spice notes, sapid and light-footed with extraordinary drinkability.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Easygoing
Ruby red with violet reflections and intense vinous scents of violet and cherry, a medium-bodied, fruity wine the estate says is made to be drunk young.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
The estate's base red, from grapes grown as high as 600 metres on basaltic and clay soils of volcanic origin in the Marano valley.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
The estate's first organic bottling, embracing floral, fruity and pleasantly spiced notes, going straight into bottle after racking and a steel refinement so that it stays fresh and easy for everyday drinking.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Fruity
Ruby red, intense in red fruit on the nose and well balanced on the palate with good acidity, from certified organic terraced hillside vineyards at 200 to 250 metres.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity
Claudio Viviani's entry red from the Mazzano hillside above Negrar: delicate bright ruby, red-berry and floral aromatics, good structure lengthened by a fresh acid vein.