The drive from Bologna to Lake Garda takes less than two hours, but it covers some of the most rewarding wine territory in northern Italy. This route passes through Valpolicella — home of Amarone — before reaching the shores of Italy’s largest lake, where Lugana, Bardolino, and Chiaretto are produced from vineyards that slope directly […]
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Valpolicella is a DOC wine zone in the Verona hills, northwest of the city, producing a family of red wines that range from a light everyday wine to one of Italy’s most concentrated DOCG reds. The wines are made primarily from three native grape varieties — Corvina Veronese, Corvinone, and Rondinella — grown on terraced
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Riva del Garda sits at the northern tip of Lake Garda, where the lake narrows into a deep fjord between limestone cliffs and the first ridges of the Dolomites. It is technically in the province of Trento — Trentino, not Lombardy or Veneto — which gives it a distinct character from the resort towns further
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