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Amarone della Valpolicella i s a DOCG reserved for a dry red passito wine whose production is permitted in the province of Verona.

«Winter must, cold blood of the grapes» Thus wrote Cassiodorus in the 4th century, ordering the “Acinatico” wine for Theodoric’s table, obtained in Valpolicella from dried grapes; but Catullus had already mentioned «calices amariores» (bitter glasses) in Carme 27 (around 49 BC), perhaps referring to an ances tor of Amarone. The label represents a stone bas-relief depicting the god Dionysus, Bacchus for the Romans, identified as the god of ecstasy, wine, intoxication and the liberation of the senses; he therefore came to represent the essence of creation in it sperennial and wild flow, the divine spirit of an immeasurable reality, the primordial element of the cosmos.