Verona, as everyone knows, is the quintessential city of love. As the home of Romeo and Juliet—literature’s most famous lovers—it is a top destination for couples from all over the world seeking a romantic weekend getaway. Every day, countless marriage proposals and declarations of love take place under the watchful gaze of the statue in […]
Pagus’s mission has always been to promote and raise awareness of the Verona territory, particularly Valpolicella, where this adventure began. Our commitment is to help you discover this wonderful region and introduce you to the people who live and work here, producing the prestigious wines that have made it famous worldwide. While we love taking […]
It may seem strange to some of you to hear us talking about harvesting in August, since it’s a topic we typically address every year in September, the grape harvest month par excellence in the Verona area. The reality is that we’re experiencing one of the hottest summers in the last twenty years, and the […]
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 […]