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Pasqua's founding Romeo and Juliet wine: Corvina, Croatina and Merlot dried in crates until they lose 30% of their water, then three months in oak. Soft, jammy and velvety at 14%. £14.50 at Majestic, £11.50 in a mixed six.
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Built from 24,846 Vivino ratings, 3,655 of them written up, and from Pasqua's own sheet. Cherry and raspberry come first, then stewed plum, vanilla and tobacco, then leather and spice on a soft, full palate at 14%.
Cherry and raspberry first, the red fruit that 1,107 Vivino reviewers mention, then stewed plum and blackberry from the drying loft. Behind them sit vanilla and a little tobacco from the oak, and a lift of violet that Majestic's buyers pick out.
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Blackberry
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Prune
Raspberry
Tobacco
Leather
VanillaFull and velvety at 14%, which is what drying the grapes in crates does to Corvina and Croatina, with Merlot filling out the middle. The tannin is soft. The wine is dry, but the fruit tastes so ripe that it reads as jammy.
Long and warm, with the leather and spice Pasqua's own sheet describes lasting after the fruit has gone.
The founding wine of Pasqua's Romeo and Juliet range, and one of Majestic's most popular Italian reds by the shop's own account, with 658 reviews and 95% who would buy it again. On Vivino 24,846 ratings average 3.9 out of 5. Drink it young, at 16 to 18 degrees, with a meat ragù.
The 2023 is on sale at Majestic for £14.50, or £11.50 a bottle in any mixed six, and at vino.com for £15.30 on offer. Majestic calls it one of its most popular Italian reds, with 658 customer reviews.
Four scores out of ten. It rates highest for someone new to Italian wine, then with food, then on value at £11.50 to £15.30, and well as an everyday bottle.
Soft, ripe and jammy, and one of Majestic's most popular Italian reds by its own account.
Ragù, roasts, polenta, mushrooms and cheese all fit. Only chilli and delicate fish do not.
£11.50 to £15.30 for a dried-grape red that James Suckling has scored 90 and 91 across recent vintages.
At £11.50 in a mixed six it is a weeknight bottle. At 14% it is a heavy one.
Generous and easy to like, but a Veneto IGT at £15 does not mark a big night.
Three months in oak and a jammy style. Drink it within three or four years.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Veneto denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
The 2023 is the vintage in both shops, at 14%. Pasqua's own sheet lists 13% for the 2021, so the alcohol moves a little from year to year with how far the grapes dry.
The 2023 is the vintage in both shops, at 14%. It is a dried-grape red built for early drinking, so enjoy it over the next three or four years rather than keeping it.
The 2023 is the vintage in both shops, at 14%. It is a dried-grape red built for early drinking, so enjoy it over the next three or four years rather than keeping it.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
The grapes grow on the eastern Valpolicella slopes in the province of Verona and are dried the way Amarone's are. The bottle carries the broad Veneto IGT name rather than Valpolicella, which is part of why it costs £15 and not £40.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Veneto is in the IGT tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Veneto falls within Veneto.
Winery
Verona
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Made at Pasqua Vigneti e Cantine, Verona. Directions
Pasqua dries the hand-picked bunches in wooden crates in a loft with controlled humidity and airflow until they lose around 30% of their water. That is 30% less wine from the same grapes, plus weeks of loft space.
The finished blend spends three months in oak barrels before bottling. Short by Amarone standards, but still barrels to buy and cellar space to fill.
The grapes come from eastern Valpolicella, but the label carries the broad Veneto IGT name. That keeps the wine clear of Amarone pricing while using the same drying method.
Pasqua lists 204 wines on Vivino and has drawn 251,983 ratings there. A red made in that volume spreads the cost of the loft, the presses and the sales team thinly across every bottle.
Majestic sells it at £14.50 alone and £11.50 a bottle in any six. The shop's discount, not the winery, sets the low end of the price.
A 14% wine carries just over £3 of duty on the February 2026 rates, and VAT takes a fifth of the price. Roughly £5.60 of the £14.50 is tax before the wine is counted.
Majestic puts it with meat ragù over pasta. Vivino's matches are beef, lamb, pasta and game, and vino.com adds roasts, first courses and aged cheese. Rich, savoury food is the common thread.
Majestic's own match for this wine is meat ragù piled over pasta. The soft tannin never fights the meat, and the wine's ripe, jammy fruit sits happily next to slow-cooked tomato.
Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · Lasagna · Anelletti al forno · Agnolotti del Plin · More pairings →
Vivino lists beef, lamb and game as matches. Roast meat is rich and fatty, and a full, 14% red with soft tannin has the weight to meet it while its fruit keeps the plate from feeling heavy.
Try with: Sunday Roast Beef · Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce · Steak and Kidney Pie · Venison Stew · More pairings →
Braised beef and polenta are soft, rich and mild rather than sharp. This wine is the same shape, full and gentle, so neither side shouts over the other.
Try with: Brasato al Barolo · Polenta alla Valdostana · Carbonade · Canederli · More pairings →
Vino.com says the wine goes well with mushroom dishes. The leather and spice Pasqua describes sit close to the earthy smell of porcini and truffle, so the plate and the glass echo each other.
Try with: Porcini mushroom risotto · Truffle risotto · Radicchio risotto · Tagliatelle al tartufo di Acqualagna · More pairings →
Aged cheese is on vino.com's list for this wine. Salt makes a ripe red taste fruitier and less alcoholic, which suits a wine at 14% with plenty of jammy fruit to show.
Try with: Caciocavallo farcito · Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Fonduta · Frico · More pairings →
Chilli heat makes a 14% wine taste hot and hollow. Delicate fish has the opposite problem: a wine this full and jammy simply buries it.
Skip with: Chicken madras · Szechuan beef · Baccala Mantecato · Polenta e schie · Pairing guide →
Three months in oak and a soft, jammy style make this a wine for the next three or four years, not the cellar. Serve it at 16 to 18 degrees, as vino.com suggests.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Three months in oak and a jammy style. Drink it within three or four years.
£15.30 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumCorvina and Croatina with a share of Merlot, which Pasqua says the drying makes even more velvety. All three are dried in crates before they are pressed.
Yes. Pasqua calls it PassioneSentimento, the founding wine of its Romeo and Juliet range, and Majestic lists it under both names. The old name Passimento is still in the shop's web address.
The grapes are picked by hand and dried in wooden crates in a loft with controlled humidity and airflow until they lose about 30% of their water. Each grape ferments on its own in steel, then the blend spends three months in oak barrels.
Cherry and raspberry, stewed plum and blackberry, vanilla and a hint of tobacco, with a soft, velvety feel at 14%. On Vivino 24,846 ratings average 3.9 out of 5.
Meat ragù over pasta is Majestic's match, and Vivino adds beef, lamb and game. It also suits mushroom risotto, polenta dishes and aged cheese.
£14.50 at Majestic, or £11.50 a bottle in any mixed six, and £15.30 on offer at vino.com. James Suckling scored the 2020 at 90 points and the 2017 and 2016 at 91.
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