(2012) The vineyards for this cranberry-coloured blend of Corvina, Rondinello, Molinara and Sangiovese enjoy the mild climate around the shores of Lake Garda. The nose offers delicate smells of the summer: rosehip and cranberry, redcurrant and raspberry. There's a tiny note of herbs and straw too, and onto the palate the wine has a very dry, very elegant and food-friendly style, the small red berried fruits still keen, with their acidity and dry flavours, and the finish very fresh, just giving a hint of lemon.

(2010) Beautifully expressive on the nose, with minerals and gravel, a curranty, dry fruitiness and little lifted cherry and graphite notes. On the palate a real sweetness and bloody ripeness of fruit comes through. There's a pastille edge of brightness, but the earthiness of the fruit, the firm, chewy tannic backbone and the spine of acidity makes this serious, but all the time fresh, savoury and deliciously drinkable. Very fine.