Fumane in Valpolicella is the “Valley of many cellars”, a few steps from Verona where the vines from which fine wines such as Amarone and Ripasso are grown

Valpolicella, the other love of Verona

Ours is a particularly fertile and generous territory, that between Verona and Lake Garda, between the municipalities of Negrar, San Pietro in Cariano, Fumane, and Sant’Ambrogio, shaped by rivers, rich in orchards and since ancient times famous for the cellars. And it is precisely these characteristics that have earned it the name of Valpolicella: it does not matter whether the etymology is Vallis-polis-cellae (the valley with many wineries) or polyzelos (rich in fruit) or pullus (an area rich in river vegetation). What matters is that the tradition of vine cultivation has actually developed here since ancient times, perpetuated in more recent times by the history of Verona, who had their country estates in these lands, enriched by villas, churches, and parish churches designed by a sixteenth-century architect, such as Andrea Palladio. Over the centuries, however, this territory of ours has also gone through difficult times: 1880, for example, when downy mildew hit our vines; and later the Second World War, with its dramas and its destructions. But we of Valpolicella have always known how to give our territory economic momentum, starting from our wine.