Medium-bodied in Valpolicella

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Easygoing

A Veronese IGT using partial ripasso over Amarone pomace adding richness to the Corvina-Rondinella blend, while a small Sangiovese component adds acidity. Approachable but complex mid-tier red from Allegrini.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Rustic

Allegrini's estate Classico Superiore reflects the house's high Corvinone proportion (45%) adding floral lift and softer tannin alongside Corvina's cherry-herb character; a bright, food-friendly everyday Valpolicella.

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.

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

Ruby red, with an intense and complex nose opening on small red fruits, notably raspberry, plum and marasca, that evolves into spiced notes, sweet vanilla and intense clove, then fresh and sapid with a fine tannin that wraps the palate in softness and warmth.

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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing

A Valpolicella Superiore from fresh grapes at 450 metres, whose wide day-night temperature swing gives a particular spiciness on the nose and, the estate says, an entirely distinctive polyphenolic profile, with acidity marking a serious structure.

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

Ruby with magenta edges, a complex and delicate nose of sour cherry and bramble blackberry, cedar wood, orange peel, mocha and officinal herbs, then a fine, balanced mouth with excellent tannin grain and a vibrant saline trail.

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 · Medium tannin · High acidity · Funky · Rustic

Soraigo shows what biodynamic Valpolicella Classico tastes like with minimal intervention: earthy, mineral, tart cherry with clay soil expressiveness and a savoury, food-friendly character that makes it a superb natural-wine discovery.

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

One of the estate's three faithful photographs of the Valpantena, first made in 2016, from a wholly manual harvest and grape selection intended to keep the nuances of each vintage in the glass.

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

A Superiore of real finesse and elegance, with clear scents of spice, small forest fruits and rose, and a palate the estate describes as showing great complexity and freshness.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

A Valpolicella Superiore held ten years in 1000-litre oak vats before release, with clear spice and small undergrowth fruits on the nose and a palate that has kept remarkable freshness through the long ageing.

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 · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury

Quintarelli's entry-level Valpolicella is already a lesson in traditional winemaking: high-acid, savoury cherry fruit with dried-herb complexity and three years in large oak adding gentle structure.

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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Rustic · Savoury

Garnet red with scents of cherry and dried fruit, a medium-bodied wine of good longevity drawn from a single 3.5 hectare cru planted with a mix of old and new Veronese varieties.

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

The classic Superiore of the Squarano estate, from a Corvina and Corvinone base with Rondinella, made by traditional methods on calcareous and clay soils.

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

Ruby red, with ripe red fruit of cherry and sour cherry alongside minty notes and spice, confirmed on the palate with good freshness and sapidity and, in the estate's words, great drinkability.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing

From white marl and flint at 400 to 500 metres: ruby, with spice, balsamic notes and mint on the nose, and a dry, persistent palate that finishes fresh, with what the estate calls great elegance and finesse.

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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Ruby red, where the freshness and integrity of the fruit give character to a medium-bodied, agreeable wine carrying the persistence of elegant dried-flower notes.

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 · 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 · Medium tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

A Valpolicella Superiore made only from fresh grapes with no drying, from limestone rock that the estate credits with a complex structure, elegance and notable ageing potential.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Rustic

Santa Sofia's Classico Superiore is a reliable, food-friendly, accessible Valpolicella from the historic Pedemonte estate with cherry-tobacco character 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 · 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 · 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 · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Easygoing

The Capitel dei Nicalo is Tedeschi's Valpolicella Superiore partially ripassoed over dried skins, offering accessible Corvina cherry fruit with tobacco structure and good food-pairing versatility.

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 · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Easygoing

Tommasi's Ripasso offers the hallmark refermentation complexity over dried Amarone skins in a well-structured, cherry-tobacco dominated medium red that is one of the zone's best-value offerings in the Ripasso DOC.

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

Selected from the best Valpolicella in the cellar, a wine in which freshness, fruit and soft notes from refinement blend together, which the estate says gives it great versatility.

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 · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Funky

Valentina Cubi's organic Valpolicella Superiore shows the freshness of high-altitude Fumane fruit with earthy mineral character from organic farming; a genuinely characterful everyday Valpolicella with better-than-average expressiveness.

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.

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

A medium-structured red that carries the aromatic signature of its older brother the Amarone with a lighter touch, the result of refermenting the Valpolicella on Amarone skins.