Founded in 1933, the Cantina Negrar is one of the oldest viticultural cooperatives in Italy. Its 230 members, all long-standing winemaking families in the Veneto region, are dedicated to caring for their lands and producing the finest wines using natural viticultural methods.

Negrar achieved immediate success with an award for excellence at the 1935 Universal Exposition in Brussels for one of their Ripasso wines, and then in 1936 actually invented the Amarone style of wine after leaving a Recioto wine to ferment all the way to dry wine.

The Wines

Le Preare is the flagship brand for the Cantina’s Valpolicella wines, made of the indigenous Corvina, Molinara, and Rondinella.

• Le Preare Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore

  Made by working the lees of their Amarone into the Valpolicella, the wine is lush and powerful with notes of

  cedar, spice and raisin. It is both a Classico (heart of the Valpolicella DOC) and Superiore (highest ripeness and quality of the DOC).

• Le Preare Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Superiore

  Produced by harvesting “ears” (orecchie) of the grape clusters then drying the grapes on straw mats until they become raisins (the “recioto process”). The resulting wine is velvety and complex with notes of anise, cedar, spicebox, and dried fruits. Again both Classico (heart of the Valpolicella DOC) and Superiore (highest ripeness and quality of the DOC).

sustainability

The Cantina works carefully to nurture the lands they steward, optimizing soil conditions, planting grasses, legumes and other low plants under the vines, and practicing Integrated Pest Management (IPM) rather than spraying. Soil fertility is maintained with green manure and legume interplantings rather than use of chemical fertilizers.

The facility is eco-friendly, using LED lighting and water recycling, packaging is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certified (glue & paint free, recycled content), and the winery uses lightweight glass to lower the shipping footprint.