Twenty minutes from Verona: the hills of Amarone and Ripasso, family cantinas, and tastings among the cherry trees.
Amarone • Ripasso • Family Cantinas • Tastings
Explore → Get Early AccessTwenty minutes from Juliet's courtyard, the Valpolicella hills make Amarone — wine from grapes dried on racks until winter concentrates them into velvet. Cellar visits here mean marble villas, fruit-drying lofts, and pours that reorganize your price tolerance.
Romans praised 'Retico' wine from these hills and dried grapes the same way; the appassimento method survived two millennia to make Recioto (sweet) and, by a legend of a fermentation left running, its dry accident — Amarone, 'the great bitter.'
Amarone grapes lose a third of their weight over months in drying lofts before pressing — one bottle carries half again the fruit of a normal red. The classic zone's cherry-and-marble villages (Fumane, Marano, Negrar) hide Romanesque churches Verona's crowds never see.
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