Trade-up (€15-30) in Valpolicella

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Easygoing

A Veronese IGT using partial ripasso over Amarone pomace adding richness to the Corvina-Rondinella blend, while a small Sangiovese component adds acidity. Approachable but complex mid-tier red from Allegrini.

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.

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

Deep ruby red turning garnet with age, an intense bouquet with hints of fruit and spice, and a smooth, sweet, full and velvety palate, from bunches selected at harvest and dried in the fruttaio.

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 · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Rustic

Deep ruby red with garnet reflections, intense and spiced on the nose and dry and soft in the mouth, made from both indigenous and non-indigenous varieties in the estate's vineyards.

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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Refreshing · Festive

Straw yellow with golden reflections and a fine, persistent perlage, with delicate scents of freshly baked croissant crust and echoes of exotic fruit and citrus, then vigorous and enveloping on the palate with a lashing, crystalline acidity.

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.

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

Corte Rugolin's sweet Recioto, made from the best bunches dried for three to four months in the fruttaio, in the traditional sweet style of the valley.

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 · Bold · Rustic

Made by refermenting the Valpolicella Classico on Amarone skins still wet with wine, a red of strong, decisive character with an intense bouquet of cherry, plum and conserve and notable staying power.

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 · 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.

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

A wine of very old Veronese tradition, from selected bunches dried at least four months with a weight loss of at least forty percent, fermented at 18 to 22 degrees and refined six months in steel.

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 · 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 · Rustic · Bold

The estate says refermenting on Amarone pomace extracts the typical Amarone characters into the wine: dried-fruit scent, alcohol and structure, giving a Ripasso suited to medium-term ageing.

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.

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

The traditional sweet red of the Valpolicella: impenetrable ruby, cooked cherry and fruit in spirit on the nose, and a complex, pleasing alternation of sweetness and acidity with a long finish.

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

Dry, rich, velvety, complex and elegant: intense ruby, wild berries, conserve and vanilla on the nose, then rich, warm and intense cooked fruit with cocoa and vanilla on the finish.

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 · 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 · 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 · 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.

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

Deep red, intense with floral notes of violet, iris and wild rose alongside vanilla, and full, sweet and delicate on the palate after a spontaneous fermentation stopped at the desired sugar and alcohol.

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.

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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

A Valpolicella Superiore made only from fresh grapes with no drying, from limestone rock that the estate credits with a complex structure, elegance and notable ageing potential.

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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Easygoing

The Capitel dei Nicalo is Tedeschi's Valpolicella Superiore partially ripassoed over dried skins, offering accessible Corvina cherry fruit with tobacco structure and good food-pairing versatility.

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 · 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 · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Easygoing

Tommasi's Ripasso offers the hallmark refermentation complexity over dried Amarone skins in a well-structured, cherry-tobacco dominated medium red that is one of the zone's best-value offerings in the Ripasso DOC.

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 · 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 · 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.