Organic in Valpolicella

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

Made by Demeter-certified biodynamic winemaker Marinella Camerani, Mithas reflects Demeter estate viticulture in its earthy complexity, mineral precision and high acidity, evolving with bottle age.

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.

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

Intense garnet, clean and complex in forest fruits and sugared almond, cherries and sour cherries in spirit, spice, vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon and liquorice, with violet, iris and wild flowers when young, and only 50 grams per litre of sugar so it stays austere.

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.

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

Deep, intense garnet, extremely complex in forest fruits and sugared almond, cherry and plum jam and sour cherries in spirit with light spice, vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon and liquorice, shading into violet, iris and wild meadow flowers, with a body the estate calls sweet, delicate, harmonious and soft as velvet.

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

A great concentration of scents recalling the cherry typical of the Marano valley, then an enveloping palate with a long and persistent aftertaste, from grapes that lose about forty percent of their weight in the drying room.

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

A sweet red at 120 to 140 grams per litre of residual sugar that the estate says carries a great minerality, giving it extraordinary freshness and drinkability despite the sweetness.

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 · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

The single-hill Amarone: complex on nose and palate, opening on pepper and dried tobacco and evolving towards sour cherries in spirit and balsamic notes, with the freshness and elegance the estate says the soil gives its ageing wines.

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

Made only in the vintages when optimal ripeness coincides with the acidity that guarantees longevity. What strikes the estate about the wine is its elegance and finesse.

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 · 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.

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

A Demeter-certified Amarone from grapes that lose forty percent of their weight in the drying room, soft pressed in February and fermented at a natural 13 to 17 degrees with a long maceration for maximum fruit extraction.

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

The estate's Riserva, from grapes dried until they lose at least thirty-five percent of their weight, pressed in January and fermented cool at 13 to 17 degrees with a long maceration, then given at least two years across tonneau and large cask.

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

Made only from the best grapes of the best vintages, with the drying extended to 150 days, a gentle pressing and a two-month fermentation in open tonneau before at least two years in new tonneau.

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 · 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 · 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 · Bold · Contemplative

A deep garnet Amarone with an intense nose of black cherries and cherries carrying the notes of the drying process, spicy dark chocolate and tobacco, plus goudron from ageing, and a generous, velvety, highly extracted palate marked by an intense mineral hint.

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 · 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 · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Bold

The Riserva from the Le Balze cru: deep garnet, intense in ripe red fruit and jam with the marks of appassimento, spice, coffee, dark chocolate, tobacco and goudron, and a generous, velvety, sapid palate closing on almond and cherry jam.

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

Deep garnet with violet hues, particularly fruity when young, with red fruits and undergrowth over spice, coffee and bitter chocolate, then a sweet, velvety, warm and elegant palate showing fruit jam and vanilla.

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 · 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.

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

Garnet red, with enveloping scents of dried grape, violet and conserve, then warm and velvety on the palate, intense and full, a refined red passito the estate calls a wine for meditation.

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

Intense garnet red with an ethereal scent of dried fruit, then full, warm, enveloping and dry on the palate, a wine the estate describes as important and of rare elegance that lends itself well to ageing.

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Funky

Valentina Cubi's certified organic Amarone from the Fumane hillsides shows a distinctly earthy, mineral character from organic viticulture; the Oseleta addition contributes pepper spice and the high acidity reflects the altitude of the Fumane Classico zone.

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

Intense garnet with orange reflections, an intense and elegant nose of cherry and plum in spirit with ethereal notes and a spiced finish of chocolate, cinnamon and tobacco, then a balanced, dry palate with elegant, soft tannins that the estate says never feels excessive despite the alcohol.

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 · 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.

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

Made only in the best vintages, the estate's sweet wine of tradition, of feast days and of special occasions, from grapes dried a minimum of 120 days.

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

Made from Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella dried a minimum of ninety days, the estate's Amarone keeps a dry and refined style, balanced on the nose and harmonious in the mouth.

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

A garnet red of good intensity born from the union of Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara with Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese, whose dominant notes the estate gives as marasca cherry in spirit, liquorice and spice.

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 · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Elegant

Garnet red, intense with the characteristic cherry note made complex by spice, and elegantly tannic on the palate, well balanced and powerful.

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

An impenetrable garnet, intense in red fruit under spirit of cherry and plum well amalgamated with noble spiced notes, and on the palate a wine of real fabric with decisive, elegant tannin, balanced and persistent.

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

Impenetrable garnet, intense in red fruit under spirit amalgamated with noble and persistent spice, and of notable gustatory concentration on the palate, persistent and balanced by an elegant, velvety tannin.

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 · 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.