We spent the first night in Italy in the Valpolicella region, near Verona, surrounded by beautifully tended vineyards. The room in our B&B was on the top floor of a 15th century tower that was once part of a fortress used for defending the land from invading Germanic tribes from the north.
Just by chance we found out that right next to the B&B is one of the best restaurants in the region, the Enoteca de La Valpolicella, where we enjoyed a fantastic meal that included one of the best pastas we ever tasted, and a great cheese plate that combined the freshest, just-made-that-morning goat cheese with other more mature cheeses full of subtle and complex flavors. All this accompanied, of course, by a local wine, in fact produced by the winery where we were staying– a Corteforte Valpolicella Classico Superiore of 2006. We slept like babies in the deep quiet of the countryside.
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