Traditional wines
Winery Visit Valpolicella
Winery visit in Valpolicella: taste where the wine is made
Venturini Massimino is a family-run estate in San Pietro in Cariano, producing wine in the Valpolicella Classica zone since 1963. The vineyards cover 15 hectares of hillside land at 250 metres altitude, trained on traditional pergola systems across dry-stone terraces that locals call “marogne.” The grapes are all native varieties: Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella and Molinara, grown on light, calcareous soils with a south-west exposure. A winery visit here puts you in front of the people who actually grow and vinify these grapes. Daniele runs the cellar, Mirco manages the vineyards, and the fourth generation is already working alongside them. The wine shop where tastings take place is at Via Semonte 20, a few hundred metres from the production cellar at Via Olmi 9, so everything you taste comes from the land around you. The full range includes Valpolicella Classico DOC, Valpolicella Classico Superiore, Ripasso Classico Superiore, Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG, Recioto della Valpolicella Classico DOCG, and several IGT wines including a sparkling rosé and a white Passito.
Vineyard tour and tasting options
There are three ways to visit Venturini, depending on how much time you have and what you want to focus on.
The “Conosci la Valpolicella” tasting lasts two hours and covers 5 classic wines with a board of local cured meats and cheeses. It costs €25 per person with no minimum group size. You taste Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso and Amarone side by side, which is probably the most efficient way to understand how the same grapes produce different wines depending on whether they are vinified fresh, refermented on Amarone pomace, or dried for months before pressing.
The “Amarone Storico” tasting is also two hours but goes deeper: 6 Amarone wines from different historic vintages, paired with charcuterie, at €85 per person (minimum 4 guests). This is the format for anyone who already knows Amarone and wants to see how it evolves over time. Venturini’s Amarone Campomasua has received scores up to 94 points in Wine Enthusiast blind tastings, so the older vintages in this lineup are not ordinary bottles.
Both tastings offer an optional catered dish for €10 extra.
The “Amarone Experience” is a five-hour vineyard tour that starts with hotel pickup in the Verona province aboard a vintage Fiat 500. You stop at two panoramic viewpoints, one facing Lake Garda and one facing Verona, with an aperitivo along the route. The tour finishes at the winery with the full Amarone Storico tasting and a light lunch. It works particularly well as a gift.
Wine for delivery: order directly from the winery
Vineyard tour
The Venturini vineyards sit on 15 hectares of terraced hills in the Valpolicella Classica zone, at 250 metres altitude. The “Amarone Experience” vineyard tour lasts five hours: hotel pickup in a vintage Fiat 500, panoramic stops over Lake Garda and Verona with an aperitivo, and a return to the winery for a 6-vintage Amarone tasting with light lunch.
Winery visit wine delivery
Venturini Massimino ships wine directly from the estate in San Pietro in Cariano, Valpolicella. After your winery visit, or if you cannot come in person, you can order any bottle from the full range by contacting the team at info@viniventurini.com or calling Alessandro at +39 346 1683094. Payments are accepted via PayPal.
