diff --git a/news/3069.trivial b/news/3069.trivial
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..733a3cac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/3069.trivial
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Fix PIPENV_VERBOSITY parsing logic
diff --git a/pipenv/environments.py b/pipenv/environments.py
index ca05535f..328b3ce4 100644
--- a/pipenv/environments.py
+++ b/pipenv/environments.py
@@ -229,9 +229,9 @@ SESSION_IS_INTERACTIVE = bool(os.isatty(sys.stdout.fileno()))
 # Internal, consolidated verbosity representation as an integer. The default
 # level is 0, increased for wordiness and decreased for terseness.
 PIPENV_VERBOSITY = os.environ.get("PIPENV_VERBOSITY", "")
-if PIPENV_VERBOSITY.isdigit():
+try:
     PIPENV_VERBOSITY = int(PIPENV_VERBOSITY)
-else:
+except ValueError:
     if PIPENV_VERBOSE:
         PIPENV_VERBOSITY = 1
     elif PIPENV_QUIET: