Valpolicella
![Vineyards in the Valpolicella region](/Images/godic/202502/19/Vineyards_in_Valpolicella5440.jpg")
![The Verona province within the large Veneto region](/Images/godic/202502/19/Map_Province_of_Verona.svg5441.png")
![In the late 20th century, a spike in popularity of Amarone led to increased plantings in the Valpolicella zone.](/Images/godic/202502/19/Front_and_back_label_of_Amarone_della_Valpolicella5441.jpg")
![A vineyard in Valpolicella](/Images/godic/202502/19/Late_Sept_Valpolicella_vineyard5441.jpg")
Valpolicella is a viticultural zone of the province of Verona, Italy, east of Lake Garda. The hilly agricultural and marble-quarrying region of small holdings north of the Adige is famous for wine production. Valpolicella ranks just after Chianti in total Italian Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) wine production.