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
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 · 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 · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Fruity
Clear and lively ruby red, intense and complex, opening on raspberry, cherry and marasca and evolving into spice, sweet vanilla and intense clove, then fresh and sapid with a fine tannin that wraps the palate in softness and warmth and a pleasant dry finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Rustic · Savoury
Ruby red with garnet reflections, vinous and intense on the nose and decisive, dry and soft in the mouth, from silty and clay soils inside the Valpolicella Classica zone.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Intense ruby red, fruity and fine on the nose, elegant and soft in the mouth, built from grapes given a short and sometimes partial drying and in some vintages blended with fresh must.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Brilliant red, with clean red cherry and berry aromas lifted by a floral touch, then an initially sweet, glyceric mouthfeel followed by a slightly bitter note and a notable tannic bite over lively red-fruit flavours.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Garnet red, with red plum and small red fruits alongside withered violets, light mineral notes and balsamic spice, then elegant, round and slender with a red-fruit weave held by lively acidity and a long, pleasantly bittersweet, saline close.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Savoury
Brilliant ruby, with red plum, marzipan and exotic flowers over a light saline shade, then juicy and enveloping with marked acidity that keeps the red fruit and spice intact, closing on the purity of the fruit.
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 · 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 · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Rustic
Intense ruby to garnet, with a clean nose of undergrowth fruit, sour cherry and plum lightly spiced with leather and pepper, and a robust, complex body that harmoniously echoes those aromas.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Bold
The second of Costa Arente's three Valpantena expressions, first made in 2016, combining the estate's traditional harvesting with modern cellar technique.
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 · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Rustic
Completely dry in the Cà la Bionda style, with freshness and elegance accompanying a large structure built by refermenting the young wine on skins still rich in colour, aroma and sugar.
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 · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
From vines over sixty years old on south-west to north-east exposed calcareous soils rich in skeleton and well drained, giving distinct perceptions of forest fruits, wild strawberry and blueberry, sour cherry and ripe marasca, and a well-structured, flowing palate with the minerality the estate calls typical of the Falezze terroir.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Rustic
A dry red from partly dried grapes, soft pressed and destemmed, fermented at 24 to 27 degrees with fifteen days of maceration and three hand punch-downs a day.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Rustic · Savoury
A dry red held in steel until February, then passed over the Amarone pomace for fifteen days at fifteen degrees before two full years in cask.
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 · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Bold
An intense, complex Amarone of traditional school: fruit conserve and small red fruits with the pleasantly vegetal, aromatic-herb notes the estate credits to altitude, then chocolate, black pepper and vanilla from the wood, sapid with soft balanced tannin.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant
A refined, full-bodied red that the estate calls full and decisive on both nose and palate thanks to the ripasso technique, with tannin and freshness in elegant balance and a silky, easy-drinking texture.
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 · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
A pre-dried Superiore built on sour cherry and blackberry conserve, plum and withered violet, following through into caramel, white pepper, cocoa, walnut and vanilla from two years in French tonneaux.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Rustic
Le Salette's take on the technique the estate calls an ancient Valpolicella practice used for centuries, adding Oseleta to the classic blend for grip.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
The estate's named Superiore, carrying the Squarano name of the property itself and blending Corvina and Corvinone with Rondinella and ten percent other native Valpolicella varieties.
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 · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Rustic · Savoury
The Squarano estate's Ripasso, from the same Corvina and Corvinone base as its Superiore, made by the traditional Valpolicella refermentation and aged in the family's historic cellars.
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 · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Bold
Ruby red, recalling cherry, tobacco, aromatic herbs and spice, and closing on freshness with balsamic and minty notes and a long persistence.
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 · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Ruby red, elegant on the nose with notes of red fruit and spice and a fine wood aroma, with real body and a balance between tannin and acidity. A Ripasso made without any appassimento of the grapes.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
Deep ruby red, complex, harmonious and elegant with dried fruit, conserve, undergrowth, walnut husk and leather, then balanced, rich, delicate, austere and persistent on the palate.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Bold
Deep ruby red, intense and elegant with ripe plum and cherry and spice, then full-bodied, balanced, enveloping and of excellent persistence.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Intense ruby red, decisive on the nose with cherry in spirit, bitter almond and leather, then round and structured with soft tannins and excellent persistence.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant
A deep ruby cru Superiore from a volcanic parcel at 400 metres, clear and intense in red fruit with spice notes, and full-bodied, sapid and persistent on the palate with medium tannin and good roundness.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Rustic
Deep ruby with an intense, clear aroma of spice and the particular notes given by refermenting on Amarone skins, then a full-bodied, structured, sapid and persistent palate with evolved tannins.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Built from roughly seventy percent fresh grapes and thirty percent lightly dried, a fine and complex Valpolicella the estate calls ambitious, with real character and the frame to improve in bottle.
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 · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Intense ruby red with scents of undergrowth, sour cherries and plums, and a robust, complex body that the estate says feeds back into the aromatics.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Vigour and elegance in one bottle: bright ruby, intensely fruited with spice, decisive and refined in structure, with velvety tannins and a persistent close.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Intense ruby red with a broad, enveloping bouquet of fruit and aromatic herbs, then spiced notes and a solid, decisive palate that is at the same time soft and elegant.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Elegant
Intense red, with red fruit, spice and cocoa on the nose, then warm and soft in the mouth and well balanced by a round tannin, from a ripasso the estate deliberately applies more restrictively than the appellation rules allow.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Rustic
Deep red tending to garnet with age, with a characteristic and pleasant scent and a full, velvety, full-bodied flavour, obtained by refermenting the Valpolicella on the residual pomace of the estate's Recioto and Amarone.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Bold
Ruby red, with hints of red fruit and raspberry and the black pepper the estate credits to Molinara, plus toast, caramel and vanilla from the French oak, and a robust flavour with a full, persistent body.
Dry · Full-bodied · High tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Deep ruby, with cherry conserve, vanilla, liquorice and tobacco on the nose and a warm, soft, intensely tannic palate, from organically farmed Corvina and Rondinella dried in a fruttaio at low temperature and controlled humidity.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Rustic
Concentrated ruby red, with blackberry and blackcurrant, withered violet, black pepper and balsamic notes, then soft and warm with a measured tannic grip.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
A Ripasso of structure and at the same time great freshness and fruit, distinguished, in the estate's words, by its brilliant colour, its cleanliness on nose and palate and its considerable elegance.
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 · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Intense ruby tending to garnet with age, intense in red fruit of cherry and redcurrant with spice, well balanced with dense, amalgamated tannins of excellent structure.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant
Intense ruby red, intense in red fruit of cherry and redcurrant, well balanced with dense, enveloping and elegant tannins, and unusually for the zone matured in terracotta amphora.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Dark, dense and brooding in colour, with cassis and blackberry over floral lift, then a full palate that shades into tobacco and almond and closes velvety, soft and fresh.
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.