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All’Amarone Wine Bar

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A love letter to Amarone in the heart of Venice

A family-run Rialto wine bar specializing in Amarone, rare Italian pours, thoughtful tasting flights, and food designed around what’s in your glass.

Just minutes from Rialto, All’Amarone is one of Venice’s most rewarding addresses for serious Italian wine without the formality that so often accompanies it. Founded in 2013 and today run by AIS-certified sommelier Johann Depietri alongside his mother Nicole, the family-run wine bar specializes in Amarone della Valpolicella while opening the door to exceptional bottles from across Italy.

Guests can explore structured wine flights, rare Coravin pours, and wines that would ordinarily require committing to an entire bottle. Food is intentionally built around what’s in the glass: Valpolicella cheeses, salumi aged in Amarone and Recioto, focaccia, cicchetti and more substantial dishes for those who decide one glass has become dinner.

Next door, the wine shop holds more than 1,500 Italian wines — including more than 400 Amarone labels — with bottles available to take away or ship internationally.

Insider Insight

Don’t simply order a familiar bottle. Ask Johann to lead the way.

Start with an Amarone flight or tell him what you normally drink and allow him to introduce you to a producer or vintage you may never have encountered. The Coravin selection makes this particularly interesting because exceptional bottles can be explored by the glass.

Order the Amarone Platter alongside it, cheeses and salumi from Valpolicella, including selections aged in Amarone and Recioto, and then visit the shop next door. If you fall in love with something, they can ship wine internationally, which eliminates the question of how you’re going to fit six bottles into your suitcase.

All’Amarone is exactly the kind of wine experience we love finding in Venice: knowledgeable without being intimidating, serious without being stuffy, and intimate enough to turn a casual glass into an education. Come curious, let the family guide you, and don’t be surprised if the bottle you remember most from Venice is one you’d never heard of before.

The best wine tasting doesn’t tell you what you should like. It helps you discover what you love.
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