Tezza, Valpolicella Ripasso Valpantena Superiore 2022 Riesling

Tezza, Valpolicella Ripasso Valpantena Superiore 2022 Riesling95 100 Luca Maroni Guide 2026 The full, smooth and generous style of ripasso wines offers some of the intensity of Amarone, but at a much lower price and with more moderate alcoholic strength. This example from the Tezza family is packed with flavour. It combines bramble, currant and cherry fruit with smoky, spicy hints of tobacco and leather in a robust dry red with firm, shaping but balanced tannins. Although it's a hearty wine, it's a good

Under the rules

The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grain tannins

Golden colour and fresh

There is never enough of this delicious red wine to go round

Readers will have a hard time keeping their hands off this jewel of a Barolo

This is a fresh and delicious Provençal rosé

touches of graphite towards the almost Pauillac-like finish

and the region's rich history in a colourful

mint and a hint of coffee bean framed in assertive

10% Chardonnay from 8 Grand Cru villages

proof of the quality potential for a native grape that is often undervalued

elegant Syrah with fine red berry and blackcurrant aromas