Every cuvée we cover tagged premium (€30-75), narrowed to Valpolicella. 52 cuvées.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Intense ruby with garnet reflections, complex in raisin, blackberry, blueberry and plum with tobacco, black pepper, liquorice and coffee, then dry, warm and soft with evident but pleasant tannins, a well-turned robust mouth and balsamic and cherry-chocolate notes on a spiced finish. Austere, rigid and deep.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Romantic · Elegant
Golden yellow with amber reflections, intense and persistent in flowers, ripe white-fleshed fruit and almond, recalling apricot, honey, orange blossom and vanilla, then warm, soft, full and structured with a base of acidity holding it in balance.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
Deep ruby with garnet reflections, intense and complex in dried flowers, sour cherry and wild cherry conserve, sweet spice, cherry chocolate, china bark and forest-flower honey with faint vine bark and green olive, and typically Marano on the palate for its piercing acidity and finesse: dry, at the edge of off-dry, warm and soft with velvety tannins.
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 · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Garnet red with an intense, ethereal and spiced nose, from bunches chosen twice over, first in the vineyard for ripeness and loose berries, then in the fruttaio for integrity and health.
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 · Bold · Contemplative
Intense garnet red, with intense and complex scents of cherry and red fruits well married to pleasant spiced notes from the wood, and a round, structured palate carrying what the estate calls an extraordinary freshness and the potential for long evolution.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Easygoing
The cooperative's estate Amarone Classico provides accessible quality from 230 family growers across the Classico zone; a solid, tobacco-cherry traditional Amarone at significantly better value than single-estate bottlings at comparable quality.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Bold
Domaso is the cooperative's flagship single-vineyard Amarone from the 14-hectare Maternigo hill parcel, showing appreciably greater concentration and mineral precision than the estate-level wine; the earthy, tobacco-cedar style reflects the Maternigo terroir's calcareous character.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Garnet red, intensely scented of sour cherry preserved in spirit, wild berries and spice, with a full, dry, velvety mouth built on three months of drying and two years in wood.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Costa Arente's flagship expression of the Valpantena, hand-picked and hand-selected at Grezzana and first made in 2013.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Festive
The estate calls Recioto the mythical father of Amarone, and added its own to the range in 2020, made from the Valpantena's hand-picked, hand-selected fruit.
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 · 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 · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Ruby red with violet reflections, with the territory clearly marked on the nose in marasca, plum and undergrowth fruit alongside consistently refined notes of cocoa and tobacco, then a full mouth of great structure, velvet and roundness with a persistent close.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Made from the best hand-picked bunches dried three to four months in plateaux, which raises the sugar concentration by twenty-five to thirty percent, then fermented about twenty-five to thirty days and aged two to three years in barrique.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
The estate's named Amarone, from the best bunches hand-picked and dried three to four months, pressed in January, fermented twenty-five to thirty days and matured in barrique for two to three years.
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 · 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.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Romantic · Contemplative
Intense with concentrated cherry and redcurrant, then dense ripe forest fruits with a pinch of dark chocolate: an unusual dessert red of power and elegance, harmonious and seductive, at 100 to 110 grams per litre of sugar.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Bold
Le Salette's estate Amarone Classico, from the high-altitude Fumane vineyards farmed by Monica Scamperle, shows the distinctive freshness and orange-peel note that characterise the estate's high-elevation fruit; a more approachable entry to the Le Salette style than the Pergole Vece.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
The Squarano estate's Amarone, from a Corvina and Corvinone base with Rondinella, dried in the traditional appassimento and matured in the family's historic cellars.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Bold
Masi's entry-level Classico Amarone is the house's most widely distributed wine and among the most accessible classic-zone bottlings, balancing dried-cherry concentration with a restrained herbaceous character and good structure.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Rustic
Masi's Toar is a 30% Oseleta-dominant Veronese IGT that deliberately showcases the rarely-used indigenous variety; partial drying of the Oseleta component adds concentration and the grape's characteristic dark spice and iron mineral character.
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 · 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.
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 · 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 · 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 · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
A very intense ruby Amarone of great structure and softness, with cherry, small red fruits, plum, spice, tobacco and aromatic herbs on the nose and the same aromas returning in the mouth, where the tannins are very sweet but present and give the wine length and depth.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Romantic
Deep ruby, with cherry conserve, very ripe plum, small red fruits, spice, tobacco and chocolate on the nose, and a powerful, fat, sweet palate that the estate insists is never cloying, returning cherry, plum, cocoa and a light mineral note.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Elegant
Santa Sofia's Amarone is a traditional-style Classico from the historic Pedemonte estate, emphasising tobacco-leather complexity and long cellarability; the 16th-century villa setting adds heritage gravitas to a consistently well-made Amarone.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Deep ruby tending to garnet, with very clean scents of berry fruit, jam and cherries in spirit, and flavours of vanilla, spice, liquorice and bitter almonds.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Bold
Force and balance together: ruby with garnet reflections, sour cherry, plum and spice on the nose, complex, enveloping and dry on the palate, harmonious and elegant and made to age.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Fruity
An intense ruby sweet red, rich on the nose with cherry, raspberry and chocolate, soft and moderately sweet on the palate and balanced by exceptional minerality.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Elegant
Speri's estate Amarone Classico reflects the six-generation family's traditional approach with large-cask ageing, producing a fresh, floral, tobacco-inflected Amarone that remains one of the most consistent classic-zone expressions.
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.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Romantic · Contemplative
Speri's Le Bine de Jago Recioto represents the traditional sweet red wine of Valpolicella before Amarone became dominant; the fermentation-arrested fruit preserves Corvina's characteristic high acidity beneath the luscious chocolate-cherry sweetness.
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 · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Produced at 500 metres on the soil of very ancient disintegrating lavas in the sub-zone the estate calls Purano, a dry wine that takes its name from the bitter vein that characterises it, full-bodied, alcoholic and of great flavour.
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.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Festive
Impenetrable dark red, with hints of sour cherry conserve, balsamic notes and chocolate, then fruity and soft on the palate with an elegant tannic grip.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Bold
Tommasi's estate Amarone Classico represents the fourth-generation family's traditional approach: a high proportion of Corvinone adds floral lift to the dried-cherry concentration while three years in large casks develops structure.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Festive
Tommasi's Recioto Classico is made from the highest-selected Corvina and Corvinone bunches from the family's San Pietro in Cariano vineyards; chocolate-cherry and raisin sweetness balanced by traditional cask structure.
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.
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 · 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 · High acidity · Contemplative · Bold
Full-bodied, intense and elegant, holding the character of grapes picked at altitude: aromatic herbs and wild flowers, dry and carried by real power.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Romantic
Deep violet in the glass, a generous bouquet of varied spice, ripe cherry, marasca and creme de cassis over toasted walnut, floral notes and chocolate, with a soft sweet entry, real freshness and a very fine tannin that will hold it for years.