Classic Valpolicella - Wine Carved in The Stone
A territory steeped in history and humanity, marked by small stone villages and silent districts, ancient fountains and marble wash-houses. Dorsals crossed by long dry stone walls, the marogna, carved between marl and rock, in support of vineyards, olive trees and cherry trees. Ancient Romanesque churches raise the bell towers beyond the gaze. They mark the territory and merge with towers and ruins of medieval castles. Capitals marked by ancestral frescoes, remain a sentinel of the human soul. Valpolicella tells the silences and throb of a never tame humanity.
Our identifying cru. The vineyard teacher from which everything started and where everything continues. The field of grapes that rises between the marls of the ancient district of Villa. An ancient vineyard that overlooks the Negrar Valley from above. Campo di Villa is a treasure trove of values and affections. The excellence of our family history, the...
A special dedication goes to the ancient Roman road where the Quintarelli Ruffo villa and family properties have insisted for centuries. A link between valleys, that of Negrar and that of Valpantena. A furrow created by man and never dispersed. The Strada Campiona is taken up again in the ancient medieval maps and, in particular, in that of 1746 by the...
The district that no longer exists. Contrà del Tono could be encountered a time along the way from Villa saliva towards Quena. In the beautiful original family map of 1746, edited by the engineer Cristofoli, it can still be recognized. Contrà del Tono is an indelible seal of the Valpolicella Classica. A village of stone and humanity that can not be...