MONTE SANTOCCIO

Based in the Veneto village of Fumane, Nicola Ferrari and his wife Laura live among the 3ha of vines - Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella, Molinara - from which all of their brilliant hand-made wines are produced. Nicola's winery is carefully conceived and ideally located and he believes in exercising full viticultural control - from the farming through to the final wines in bottle (which are produced at the small winery in the middle of the vineyards, precisely the arrangement he insisted upon after his decade spent at Quintarelli). The style is elegant, balanced and restrained, yet expressive.