Giuseppe Quintarelli

We are at the Giuseppe Quintarelli winery. Silvio Quintarelli founded the company at the turn of the 20th century. The first vineyards of this historic winery were located in Figàri in the municipality of Marano di Valpolicella. Even then its wines were popular overseas and indeed were exported to the United States in small oak casks and demijohns. In 1924, the company moved to the valley and its present location and it was here that Silvio and his family continued their business. The 1950s brought generational handover, with Giuseppe, the youngest son, now managing the winery. He is the heart and soul of Quintarelli wines.

Quintarelli wines: perfect for aging

He was the one who gave the winery its name, who wrote its history, ensuring the success of Amarone and making his wines famous in Italy and around the world. Giuseppe is the one who has developed the winery, leading it to grow and innovate. However, he has never lost sight of what has given it strength over the years, that is, the traditional method, allowing only a few bunches to fully ripen, respecting nature and its seasons, using exclusively natural materials for growing the vines, handling the grapes and the wine. The wines in the Quintarelli cellars have two characteristics in common: a natural disposition for ageing for at least 10 years in wooden barrels and in bottles, which improves the wine and its characteristics and a liveliness that continues after the bottle has been opened.

The vineyards and winery are in Garbole, a town in the municipality of Tregnago near Verona, in the Illasi valley, between Soave and Valpolicella. The Finetto brothers describe themselves as “self-taught, innovators outside the box” and, over the years, have enthusiastically and resolutely pursued a clear, well-defined project.

Their aim is to produce wines with a clear identity that reflects the linchpins of their Garbole philosophy: “Only nature and man’s work go into the bottle: and people before wine, value before price, and wine before the label.” This philosophy is perfectly embodied by Garbole's wines: Heletto Rosso Veneto IGT., with its vitality and passion, boldness and reflection; Hatteso Amarone della Valpolicella Riserva DOC, with a balance between strength and softness; HESTREMO Recioto della Valpolicella DOC, “a link between past and present, reminding us who we are and where we come from. It evokes the memories, thoughts and emotions that lurk in the most ancestral depths of our being” and finally, the latest addition to the Garbole family, a limited edition Hurlo, which needs to be ordered in advance, “as breath of spirit expressed in liquid form that reaches the profoundest depths of our emotions."