Marco Benedetti

At a Glance - Role: Owner and winemaker. - Place: Negrar, Italy. - Founded: 2013. - Specialty: Young, small-scale production in Valpolicella. - Voice: “The land had been calling me for years.” Valpolicella production here is built on a small-scale model, with Marco Benedetti working as both owner and winemaker at DolceVera in Negrar. Founded in 2013, the winery sits within a region where scale, site, and house style carry more weight than volume, and that position is part of the work Benedetti claims for himself.

The shift from office work to vineyard labor is stated plainly in Benedetti’s own words, and it reads as a change in practice rather than a sentimental break. After two years in an office and one month in the vineyards, Marco Benedetti says he understood that this was the place where his work belonged.

The house line-up centers on the core Valpolicella forms: Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso, Amarone, and Recioto. Those four names place DolceVera squarely inside the region’s established register, with Marco Benedetti working across the styles that define the category.