Valpolicella is grown in the Veneto region (North East Italy just outside of Venice) and has several personalities depending on how it is processed in aged.   Valpolicella is a wine region not the name of a grape.  A number of different grapes can go into a bottle of Valpolicella the most prominent of which is a grape hardly anyone has ever heard of called Corvina.  The most well known personality is basic Valpolicella.  It is a light bodied wine, has alcohol levels of 11-12%, and is a great wine to have with Pizza, lighter meats like veal, or heavier seafood like swordfish.   A bottle of Valpolicella should cost between $8 and $15. The most regal personality for Valpolicella is Amarone.   Amarone starts out with the same grapes as Valpolicella but before fermentation starts the grapes are dried out, traditionally on straw mats but now through a variety of processes, so that the juice that remains is very concentrated.  The wi...