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
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Romantic
Deep garnet with violet reflections, fruity, intense and persistent in sour cherry, wild cherry and blueberry with violet, cinnamon and white pepper, sweet and harmonious but never cloying, fresh and extremely fruity with red-fruit conserve and cinnamon in the mouth.
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 · 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 · 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 · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Intense and extraordinarily powerful, with a concentrate of sour cherry conserve, dense and harmonious in the mouth, rich and dry with tannins built for a long development in bottle.
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 · 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 · 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.
Nicolis Lugana
4.2
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 · 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.