Refreshing in Valpolicella

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 · 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.

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

Ruby red with garnet and orange reflections, floral on the nose with evident ripe fruit that stays fresh, and a vertical palate playing on acid and saline notes with an excellent balance between minerality and a tannin that closes dry and persistent.

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 · 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 · 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.

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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.