Giuseppe Quintarelli's white from Negrar in Valpolicella: a Garganega-led Veneto IGT blend rounded by a spell in old oak. Pear, white peach and citrus sit over a stony, honeyed core. A cult-estate white stocked by a handful of UK merchants.
Drinkers and importers converge on one picture: pear, white peach and citrus over a stony, honeyed core, with a nutty edge from time in old oak. Built around Garganega grown on Quintarelli's mineral-rich slopes above Negrar.
Pear, white peach and apricot lead, lifted by lemon and orange zest and a white-flower top note. Underneath sits the stony, honeyed character Vivino drinkers flag most often, with a faint almond hint from time in old oak. The base is Garganega grown on Quintarelli's mineral-rich slopes at Negrar.
Lemon
Acacia
Apricot
Pear
White peach
Wet stones
Almond
HoneyMedium-bodied and gently textured rather than sharp: a stainless-steel ferment keeps the fruit clean while a spell in large old oak adds grip and a nutty, lanolin-tinged weight. Green apple and peach carry over a saline, stony mid-palate, with acidity importers describe as discreet rather than cutting.
Long and clean, closing on wet-stone minerality and a dry almond note rather than overt fruit.
Quintarelli's quiet white, a Garganega-led Veneto IGT from the Amarone estate at Negrar that drinkers rate 4.1 of 5 across more than 5,000 Vivino reviews. The crowd loves its unexpected depth and stony complexity for a white; the common grumble is the cult-estate price. One for the table over the next few years, not the cellar.
A cult-estate white in tight supply: a handful of UK merchants list the 2023 and 2024 between roughly £42 and £53. Quintarelli makes tiny quantities at Negrar, so allocation, not demand, tends to set the price.
Scored as an oak-aged Garganega blend at cult-estate pricing: strong with food and for occasions, less of an everyday or long-cellar bottle given the price above £40.
Moderate acidity, oak-aged texture and a saline core make it a flexible match for seafood, risotto and aged cheese.
A connoisseur's white: the Quintarelli name and scarcity make it a talking-point bottle for a special table.
An oak-aged, savoury style at a high price: rewarding but not the obvious first Veneto white for a newcomer.
At £42-plus it sells well above the Veneto IGT white average; you pay for the Quintarelli name, not the appellation.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our editorial methodology.
A compact view of what the Veneto denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
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Two vintages are stocked now. Vivino drinkers rate the 2024 a fraction above the 2023, both above 4.2 of 5; either drinks well young while the wine's oak and minerality keep it fresh for a few years.
Early bottles show the riper stone-fruit side of the blend, with the estate's old-oak texture already integrating. Vivino's 4.3 of 5 leads the recent vintages. Best from 2025 onward.
A wetter, cooler Veneto season that kept the whites fresh; Quintarelli's old-oak ageing fills out the mid-palate. Vivino drinkers rate it around 4.2 of 5. Drink through the late 2020s.
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.
Giuseppe Quintarelli is Valpolicella's benchmark traditional estate, famous for Amarone and for handwritten labels from the cellar at Via Cere in Negrar. The Bianco Secco is its quiet white, made with the same patient, old-oak hand.
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 , covering Veneto.
Giuseppe Quintarelli makes minute quantities at Negrar and allocates them; scarcity, not the IGT label, is why the Bianco Secco lists near £42 to £53 in the UK.
Decantalo records vines averaging 30 years on mineral soils above Negrar; low-yield old vines cost more to farm than a volume IGT white.
After a stainless-steel ferment the wine spends time in large old oak, adding cellar months and barrel cost before release.
The estate's famously hand-detailed, label-by-label approach keeps volumes and efficiencies low, which the bottle price absorbs.
The broad Veneto IGT carries no costly ageing mandate or release tasting; here the price reflects the producer, not the appellation tier.
UK still-wine duty of £2.67 a bottle plus 20% VAT account for roughly £11 of a £50 shelf price before the merchant's margin.
Dishes that complement this wine
Moderate acidity, an oak-aged texture and a stony, nutty core make this a food white. It suits Venetian baccala, shellfish pasta and aged cheese far better than anything sharp or chilli-driven.
The wine's stony minerality and gentle oak weight stand up to whipped, salty baccala, while its citrus lift refreshes the palate between forkfuls of a rich, creamy dish.
Try with: Baccala Mantecato · Baccala alla cosentina · Vitello Tonnato · More pairings →
Medium body and a saline core mirror squid-ink risotto and seafood fregola, matching their weight without burying the delicate shellfish underneath.
Try with: Squid ink risotto · Fregula ai frutti di mare · Risotto alla Milanese · More pairings →
Discreet acidity and a citrus edge cut through a peppery mussel broth, while the wine's stone fruit keeps the pairing generous rather than austere.
Try with: Impepata di cozze · Cozze arraganate · Fregula ai frutti di mare · More pairings →
The nutty, almond and lanolin notes the oak ageing leaves bridge straight to aged pecorino and grana, echoing the cheese's savoury, crystalline character.
Try with: Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Grana Padano · Parmigiano Reggiano · More pairings →
Citrus and a stony freshness slice through fried gnocco fritto and the fat of cured salumi, resetting the palate between rich, salty bites.
Try with: Gnocco fritto · Prosciutto di Parma · Mortadella · More pairings →
Capsaicin heat and sweet-sour sauces flatten the wine's delicate stone fruit and push its oak toward bitterness; the subtlety that makes it special is simply lost.
Skip with: Vindaloo · Sweet and sour prawns · Sichuan hotpot · Nam prik · Pairing guide →
Enjoy this white inside its first three to five years, while the citrus and stone fruit stay vivid. The old-oak ageing gives more grip than a typical Veneto white, but it is built for the table, not the cellar.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
More grip than most Veneto whites thanks to old-oak ageing, but built for three to five years rather than long cellaring.
£41.63 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 · MediumIt is a Veneto IGT white led by Garganega, blended with Trebbiano Toscano, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and the rare local Saorin, the Quintarelli family's name for Tocai Friulano.
Yes. After fermenting in stainless steel it spends time in large old oak, which gives it a nutty, textured weight unusual for an everyday Veneto white.
Pear, white peach and citrus over a stony, honeyed core, with a dry almond finish. Vivino drinkers rate it 4.1 of 5 across more than 5,000 reviews.
Venetian baccala, shellfish pasta, seafood risotto and aged hard cheese. Its saline minerality and gentle oak suit richer seafood better than sharp or chilli-led dishes.
Drink it within three to five years of the vintage. The old-oak ageing gives more grip than most Veneto whites, but it is made for the table rather than long cellaring.
Quintarelli is a cult Valpolicella estate making tiny quantities by hand at Negrar. UK prices around £42 to £53 reflect that scarcity and reputation, not the broad Veneto IGT classification.
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