Organic Ripasso & Amarone Tasting with Local Foods at La Dama Vini

Your experience at La Dama Vini begins outdoors with a walk through the historic Cà Besi vineyard. Your guide, a sommelier or WSET-qualified host, will show you the vines trained in the traditional Pergola Veronese system and explain how the grapes are grown organically.

From there, you will move into the barrel cellar, where the wines rest and age, and then through the vinification area. This is the room where the technical difference between Valpolicella's two most famous red wines, Ripasso and Amarone, truly begins.

The guided tasting is held in the estate's indoor tasting room. You will taste six organic wines, accompanied by a rich selection of local cured meats and cheeses, to understand the history and production philosophy of the territory.

The tasting includes:
- Bollicella Rosato Frizzante sui Lieviti: A pale, sparkling rosé from 100% Molinara grapes, refermented on its lees for a dry, savory character. Served with bruschetta and the estate's organic extra-virgin olive oil.
- Valpolicella Ripasso Classico DOC Superiore Biologico: A blend of 50% Corvina, 25% Rondinella, 20% Corvinone, and 5% Molinara, this wine is refermented on Amarone skins, giving it more body and a warm, dried-cherry depth.
- Valpolicella Ripasso DOC Superiore "Ripensia": The estate's second Ripasso selection, poured alongside the first so you can taste the house style. 
- Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG Biologico: A powerful, dry red made from 73% Corvina, 17% Rondinella, and 10% Corvinone grapes dried for months before pressing (a technique called 'appassimento'), full of dried fig and spice notes.
- Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG "Austernia": The estate's cru Amarone, poured against the classic bottling to show a second expression of the same wine.
- Recioto della Valpolicella Classico DOCG Biologico: A sweet wine from dried grapes (85% Corvina, 10% Rondinella, 5% Molinara), recognized as a Slow Food Presidium, to conclude the tasting.