Connoisseurs of Italian wines and professional sommeliers certainly agree with “Wine Searcher” 2015 Top 20 Best Italian Wines list that is based on "the best quality/price" ratio.
“Wine Searcher” is the most authoritative search engine used by millions of customers around the world. And it is not surprising because the site can compare prices of more than 5 million fine wines in more than 50,000 boutiques around the world in all price categories.
Wines offered by distributors are estimated by the world's leading experts, and afterwards the website correlates the sommeliers’ assessments with the prices of wines in the stores.
As a result Top-20 ranking of the best Italian wines is made.
Well known Italian wine houses are included in this list. Marchesi Frescobaldi (Ornellaia), Bruno Giacosa, Giuseppe Quintarelli, Giacomo Conterno, Biondi Santi, Romano Dal Forno, Gianfranco Soldera, Giuseppe Mascarello and Angelo Gaja are among them.
Enzo Pontoni, the only unknown to the world community winemaker from Friuli appears in this list. His vineyard exists more than 25 years. Wine cellar of Enzo Pontoni is tiny: it accommodates a little more than 500 bottles of Refosco - very rare and precious wine. As such, Refosco price should not be a surprise for you: one bottle (750 ml) costs $ 490.
2015 Top-20 Best Italian Wines Price per bottle $
1 Giuseppe Quintarelli Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva | 754 |
2 Tenuta dell'Ornellaia Masseto Toscana IGT, Tuscany, Italy | 741 |
3 Giacomo Conterno Monfortino, Barolo Riserva DOCG, Italy | 678 |
4 Falletto di Bruno Giacosa 'Falletto' Riserva, Barolo DOCG, Piedmont, Italy | 611 |
5 Biondi Santi Tenuta il Greppo Riserva, Brunello di Montalcino DOCG, Italy | 575 |
6 Case Basse di Gianfranco Soldera Brunello di Montalcino Riserva DOCG | 507 |
7 Avignonesi Occhio di Pernice Vin Santo di Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy | 495 |
8 Miani 'Calvari' Refosco Colli Orientali del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy | 490 |
9 Giuseppe Quintarelli 'Amabile del Cere' Passito Bianco Veneto IGT, Italy | 468 |
10 Giuseppe Quintarelli 'Alzero' Cabernet Veneto IGT, Italy | 461 |
11 Romano Dal Forno Vigneto di Monte Lodoletta, Recioto della Valpolicella | 451 |
12 Case Basse di Gianfranco Soldera Intistieti, Brunello di Montalcino Riserva | 448 |
13 Giuseppe Mascarello e Figlio Barolo Monprivato Ca d'Morissio Riserva, Barolo | 419 |
14 Romano Dal Forno Vigneto Monte Lodoletta, Amarone della Valpolicella | 402 |
15 Giuseppe Quintarelli Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG, Veneto | 390 |
16 Giuseppe Quintarelli Recioto della Valpolicella Classico DOCG, Veneto | 388 |
17 Gaja Sori San Lorenzo Barbaresco-Langhe, Piedmont, Italy | 386 |
18 Gaja Sori Tildin Barbaresco-Langhe, Piedmont, Italy |
376 |
19 Gaja Costa Russi Barbaresco-Langhe, Piedmont, Italy | 366 |
20 Bruno Giacosa Villero di Castiglione Falletto, Barolo DOCG, Italy | 366 |