Poultry in Valpolicella

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

Extremely powerful and intense with a concentrated flavour of black cherry conserve, dense and very mature yet still velvety, full and dry, with the tannin load for a long life in bottle.

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 · 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 · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

The elegant cru of the Masi range, impenetrable ruby, intense and complex in cooked fruit and cinnamon, then rich, warm and round with ripe cherries and marasca, cooked plums and a rounded bitter-almond signature.

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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.