This wine is very similar to the Ripasso sold under the I Castei brand by the same producer. Both wines flaunt a very attractive and accessible price tag with easy fruit aromas of cherry, dried fig and plum. Perhaps the 2016 Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore Ca' del Pipa San Michele is slightly thinner in mouthfeel and texture but not by much, although it still closes with a spot of pizza-friendly acidity. The blend of grapes is 70% Corvina, 25% Rondinella and 5% Molinara, and the wine goes into large oak casks for 20 months. Some 30,000 bottles were made.