Ripe, concentrated dark berries - luscious and grand yet elegant and enormously well-defined.  Originally trained as a stone mason, Tommaso took over over his uncle’s Valpolicella estate in the mid-1980s; by the late nineties, his wines had become world-famous for their incredible intensity of fruit. Like other top Veneto winemakers, he uses new barrels, but any hint of new wood is hidden with the incredibly focused delivery of the lush, opulent fruit.  Low-yielding vines - Corvinone (40%), Corvina Grossa (25%) and Rondinella (20%). Valpolicella Ripasso DOC, Italy