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Cantina Valpolicella Negrar
Cantina Valpolicella Negrar is a growers' cooperative in Negrar, in the hills north of Verona. It was started in 1933 and now brings together about 240 families who farm the slopes around the village. Between them they work close to a thousand football pitches of vines. The best wines carry the Domìni Veneti name. Amarone is the house speciality, and one of them is named after a Roman villa found under a member's vineyard. The wineshop is open to visitors.
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About Cantina Valpolicella Negrar
A cooperative works differently from a single estate. Each member family farms its own plots and brings the fruit in at harvest. The cellar then keeps the best parcels apart instead of blending everything together. That is why the range runs from an everyday Valpolicella up to single-vineyard Amarone. For a drinker it means one address covers the whole valley, from the cheap and cheerful bottle to the serious one.
The grapes are the local four. Corvina and Corvinone carry the flavour, all sour cherry and dried herb. Rondinella fills out the colour. Molinara, older and rarer now, shows up here and there. The valley's oldest habit is drying the bunches on racks through the winter before pressing them. Lose water and you concentrate everything left behind. That is how Amarone is made, and how Recioto, the sweet version, was made long before it.
Domìni Veneti is the name on the wines the cellar is proudest of. Many are tied to one hillside rather than to the valley as a whole. Jago, Casetta and Verjago name red slopes; Foscarino and Castellaro name white ones planted to Garganega for Soave. Read them as the co-op saying this hill tastes different from the next one. The style across the range is generous rather than austere, which is why it travels well and why British merchants stock it.
The Roman connection is not a marketing line. In 1887 a mosaic showing a cherub in a chariot came out of the ground here during farm work, and it now sits in Verona's archaeological museum. The vineyard involved in the modern dig belongs to a member family, and their fruit goes into an Amarone the cellar named after the villa. The first vintage was 2004 and it reached the shelves in 2011. Visitors are welcome at the wineshop on Via Ca' Salgari, and tastings run from a short introduction up to a walk through the single-hillside wines. All of them are booked ahead.
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Cantina Valpolicella Negrar
Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona
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4 bookable experiences at Cantina Valpolicella Negrar
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Experience
Classic
1h 30
From €25 per person
The guided tour offers a fascinating journey into the heart of the Valpolicella wine-making tradition. The experience begins in the Appassimento Museum, where the techniques used for drying the grapes are illustrated, a fundamental practice for the creation of the region's great wines. The tour continues in the historic cellar, which preserves some of the winery's most representative vintages, and in the barrel room, where the wines rest in wooden barrels until they reach the right maturation. The tour concludes in the tasting room, where you can taste three typical wines of the winery and Valpolicella: Valpolicella Superiore, Ripasso and Amarone della Valpolicella. The glasses are accompanied by breadsticks or small savory snacks. Upon reservation, it is possible to enrich the experience with platters of selected local cured meats and cheeses, for a perfect food and wine pairing. Gluten-free products are available upon request.
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Maggiore
1h 30
From €35 per person
The guided tour offers a fascinating journey into the heart of the Valpolicella wine-making tradition. The experience begins in the Appassimento Museum, dedicated to the grape drying technique, continues in the Caveau with some of the winery's historical bottles, and proceeds to the Barrel Room, where the wines age in wood until they reach their best expression. The tour ends in the tasting room, where five wines representative of the territory are offered: Soave Cru, Valpolicella Superiore, Ripasso, Amarone della Valpolicella, and Recioto. To accompany the tasting, breadsticks or small savory snacks are provided. Upon reservation, it is possible to enrich the experience with platters of selected local cured meats and cheeses, for a perfect food and wine pairing. Gluten-free products are available upon request. An experience designed for those who wish to deepen their knowledge of the wines of Cantina di Negrar, following an itinerary that combines history, method, and tasting.
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Amarone
1h 30
From €50 per person
The guided tour offers a fascinating journey into the heart of the Valpolicella wine-making tradition. The experience begins in the Appassimento Museum, where the techniques used for drying the grapes are illustrated, a fundamental practice for the creation of the region's great wines. The tour continues in the historic cellar, which preserves some of the winery's most representative vintages, and in the barrel room, where the wines rest in wooden barrels until they reach the right maturation. The tour concludes in the tasting room, where you can taste 4 different types of Amarone.
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Journey through the Crus
1h 30
From €60 per person
The guided tour offers a fascinating journey into the heart of the Valpolicella wine-making tradition. The experience begins in the Appassimento Museum, where the techniques used for drying grapes are illustrated, a fundamental practice for creating the great wines of the region. The tour continues in the historic cellar, which preserves some of the winery's most representative vintages, and in the barrel room, where the wines rest in wooden barrels until they reach the right maturation. The tour concludes in the tasting room, where you can taste 5 CRU wines from our estate.
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Via Ca' Salgari 2, 37024 Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona
What Cantina Valpolicella Negrar makes
Cantina Valpolicella Negrar's current bottle selection is led by Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG. The clearest grape signal comes from Corvina and Garganega.
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The cellar and wineshop are on Via Ca' Salgari in Negrar di Valpolicella, in the province of Verona. Negrar is one of the five valleys of Valpolicella Classica, the older heart of the region. It is about twenty minutes north of Verona by car, and an easy trip from Lake Garda. Tastings are booked ahead.
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