Amarone della Valpolicella and Nero d’Avola: appassimento power from Veneto meets the dark-fruited Mediterranean character of Sicily. Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG and Nero d’Avola represent two powerful but fundamentally different expressions of Italian red wine. Amarone comes from Veneto and derives much of its extraordinary concentration from appassimento, the controlled drying of harvested grapes before fermentation. Nero d’Avola is one of Sicily’s defining red grapes