Amarone della Valpolicella, usually known as Amarone, is a rich Italian dry red wine made from the partially dried grapes made in Verona, near Venice.
In Italian, the name Amarone literally means "the Great Bitter"; a name that has been used to distinguish it from the Recioto produced in the same region, which is sweeter in taste.
Latin poet Catullo celebrated the "Bitter glasses" of wines in his verses, around 49 B.C., whereas the wine has a much more recent origin as sommelier Giacomo Pietrantuono explains.
