Wine and food experiences in Valpolicella

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What Valpolicella eats and drinks

The food and wine pairings our editors chose for Valpolicella, the dishes you are most likely to meet on a tasting or at lunch.

• Pastissada de caval with AmaronePastissada is braised for hours in red wine until the meat falls apart. Amarone's dried-fruit weight and 15 percent alcohol stand up to that reduct...Read the pairing →
• Risotto all'AmaroneThe rice is toasted and then cooked in the wine itself, so the dish carries the same cherry and bitter-almond register as the glass beside it. Vero...Read the pairing →
• Recioto della Valpolicella with pandoroPandoro is a Verona invention and Recioto is the city's own sweet red. The wine's residual sugar matches the cake's butter without the tannin that ...Read the pairing →
• Monte Veronese DOP with ReciotoThe Lessinia cow's-milk cheese turns sharp and crystalline with age. Recioto's sweetness cuts that salt the way a sweet wine is supposed to, and th...Read the pairing →
• Soppressa veneta with young ValpolicellaValpolicella Classico is light, sour-cherry driven and low in tannin, which is exactly what a fatty coarse-ground salami needs. This is the everyda...Read the pairing →
• Lesso e pearà with Valpolicella RipassoPearà is bone marrow, breadcrumb and a great deal of black pepper. Ripasso has the body to carry that pepper and enough acidity to reset the palate...Read the pairing →

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