Amarone della Valpolicella and Salice Salentino Riserva: appassimento richness from Veneto meets the savory Mediterranean depth of Puglia’s Negroamaro. Amarone della Valpolicella and Salice Salentino Riserva represent two very different expressions of Italian red-wine power. Amarone comes from Veneto and achieves extraordinary concentration through appassimento, the controlled drying of grapes after harvest. Salice Salentino Riserva comes from Puglia and is based primarily