Festival · Veneto
Vinitaly
The world's largest wine show—4,000 Italian wineries + 1,000 international producers converge in Verona for 4 days every April, attracting 30,000 operators from 140 countries.
What to do there
Wine bars and wineries nearby
- Wine bar · Valpolicella Valpolicella & Amarone Amarone, the "wine of wines"—taste dried Corvina grapes aged for years at family wineries in Valpolicella hills, paired with Lessinia cheeses, just north of Verona.
- Wine bar · Soave Soave Castle & Wine Medieval Scaligeri Castle (14th century) guards the Veneto's signature white wine — Cantina del Castello ages Soave Classico in cool cellars beneath the fortress walls.
- Winery · Verona Verona Arena & Wine Bars Roman amphitheater's wine scene—Mandorla and Tor-tor sip artisanal natural wines next to 2,000-year-old stone, or hit Bottega del Vino's legendary marble bar with 18,000 bottles.