VENEZIA-VERONA AMARONE TOUR

If you wish to discover a perfect blend of culture and taste the Venezia-Verona Amarone tour will be an extraordinary exeperience mixing the unforgettable monuments and squares of the historic centre of Verona where Juliet and Romeo balcony is heartly welcoming thousands of tourists ever since Shakespeare wrote his most likely known play and the unique character of the wines from Valpolicella area. The Amarone-Valpolicella tour offers the opportunity to visit vineyards located in the northwest of Verona in the Classic Valpolicella area where sunny hills and very little towns (called “borghi”) are the perfect setting for an exclusive tasting menu. The very special nature of the soil, the presence of indigenous grape varieties make Valpolicella Classico, Valpolicella Superiore Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto among the best red wines all over the world. The particular method of production (semi-drying the grapes) - found nowhere else in the world - is the reason why Amarone and Recioto are particularly prefered by the wine lovers.

The wine tasting includes the visit to two wineries such as Cantina Brunelli and Cantina Valpolicella Negrar where family traditions create fine products of incomparable character and quality pleasantly balancing flavours and walk through vineyards. These distinguishable wines from mass-produced will seduce with a world of strong emotions admiring the genius of wine maker given that the vinification is serenaded all day by classical music which helps the fermentation.

Since Italian cuisine is synonimous of eating well the second part of the trip to Valpolicella area is followed by a delicious immersion in the culinary tradition where several recipes made of simple and elaborate dishes to be consumed in a restaurant will enhance the flavours of this singular journey.

The tour will continue with a private mini walking visit of Verona: the city of the most famous lovers Romeo and Juliet. The numerous attractions of the historic centre will immediately capture your intimate feelings in front of astonishing Piazza Bra - home of the famous Arena di Verona with its magic performing arts - Castelvecchio bridge, Juliet's House, Piazza dei Signori and Piazza delle Erbe the beating lover’s heart of this city, the Scaliger Tombs - the tombs of the Scaligera family - and the Church of St Anastasia.