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Amarone
Italian red wine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Italian wine. For the restaurant in Rotterdam, see Amarone (restaurant).
Amarone della Valpolicella, usually known as Amarone (UK: /ˌæməˈroʊneɪ, -ni/,[1][2] Italian: [amaˈroːne]), is an Italian DOCG denomination of typically rich dry red wine made from the partially dried grapes of the Corvina (45–95%, of which up to 50% could be substituted with Corvinone), Rondinella (5–30%) and other approved red grape varieties (up to 25%).[3]
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Valpolicella is in the province of Verona, within the large Veneto region.
In Italian, the name Amarone literally means 'Great Bitter'; originally, this was to distinguish it from the Recioto produced in the same region, which is sweeter in taste.