The most attentive of you will have surely noticed that there’s a new arrival among our group tour proposals: Prosecco and Amarone. We want to offer you the chance to discover two of the Veneto’s most important and renowned appellations, combining a visit to a winery specializing in the production of white and sparkling wines […]
This month, we’re thrilled to bring our Wine Talks series back to our blog. Last week, on a scorching morning in mid-June, we visited Giorgio and Emanuela Marcolini at their winery Il Monte Caro in Mezzane di Sotto, in eastern Valpolicella. The Monte Caro project began in 1986, when Enzo, Giorgio and Emanuela’s father, fell […]
Visiting Valpolicella in May means immersing yourself in a lush, verdant landscape. While production activities in the area’s countless cellars are minimal at this time of year, nature outside is in full swing. The vines, reinvigorated by the spring rains, are stretching out their shoots, and through the leaves you can glimpse the first inflorescences […]
This year, as has been the case for the past fifty-seven years, Verona transformed into the capital of wine in mid-April. The Verona exhibition center hosted a new edition of Vinitaly, the largest international showcase for Italian wine and food. From April 12th to 15th, the four thousand exhibitors had the opportunity to meet restaurateurs, […]
This month, we’ll take you on a deeper exploration of the DolceVera winery, located in Villa, Negrar di Valpolicella. It’s a young winery, founded in 2013 by Marco Benedetti, who, working the vineyards inherited from his grandfather, began harvesting high-quality grapes and transforming them into wine. In recent years, the winery has undergone a major […]
The beginning of 2026 has brought with it many new developments for Pagus. The most attentive of you, and those we’ve had the pleasure of accompanying on a tour over the last couple of months, have undoubtedly noticed: we’ve moved! The new address is Via della Valverde 75, just a ten-minute walk from Piazza Bra. […]
For our first wine talk with the producer of 2026, we’ll take you to Pigozzo, a small town in the Squaranto Valley, one of the lesser-known valleys of the Valpolicella DOC. Here, in 2015, Andrea Lavagnoli opened a winery, beginning to vinify some of the grapes his family had been growing for decades, then selling […]
In this new encounter with producers, we’ll take you on a discovery tour of Siridia winery, in Negrar di Valpolicella. Edoardo and Samuela Speri‘s project, launched in 2019, aims to showcase a different side of Valpolicella and to excite and inspire those who love the wines of this region. Siridia is a fictional name, open […]
For the month of November, we’re introducing you to the Cornelia Tessari winery, which has been producing Soave Classico wines in Monteforte d’Alpone for nearly a century. It all began in the 1930s, when Antonio Tessari and his wife Cornelia began vinifying Garganega grapes from their one-hectare vineyard in the cellar below their home. Thanks […]
We resume our “Wine Talks” with the producers, and this month we’re exploring the Terre di Pietra winery in Marcellise. The Terre di Pietra project was born from the dream of Laura, who, alongside her husband Cristiano, began producing wine in a small garage in Torbe, a hamlet of Negrar di Valpolicella, in 2007. In […]