Lugana Wines

Lugana is a small-scale Italian vino percentage that you’ve in all probability never heard of before.  It straddles Veneto as well as Lombardy, correct around the Southern shore of the the stunning Lake Garda. It's neighbors are Soave as well as Valpolicella as well as in that place are merely a piddling over 100 producers. Lugana wines are made from an indigenous varietal called Trebbiano di Lugana or most accurately Turbiana which is related to Verdicchio. The clay pose down adds a deportment on of salinity as well as savory character as well as the wines are zesty as well as brilliant amongst lemon, grapefruit as well as tangerine as well as sometimes sweeter notes of peach, almond as well as fifty-fifty mint. I visited Lake Garda as well as Lugana inwards the Fall of 2015 and Cantina Castelnuovo winery. I was struck past times how much to a greater extent than delicious as well as compelling the wines were than the to a greater extent than mutual as well as oftentimes insipid Pinot Grigio. The most challenging matter nearly Lugana white wines is finding them inwards the US. 

The un-oaked Lugana DOC wines are fun as well as fresh as well as correspond nearly 90% of the wines that are produced. The Superiore wines are aged for i yr as well as Riserva wines are aged 2 years, they bring an added layer of salinity as well as minerality inwards add-on to a rounder grapheme but silent bring smashing acidity as well as freshness. I intend of these wines equally an analog to the Margarita. Youthful, juicy, refreshing amongst smashing acidity the wines are slow to bask (with tabular array salt of without!). They larn smashing amongst spicy nutrient but also seafood as well as fifty-fifty bluish cheese. I opened a bottle of Lugana as well as served it chilled amongst a Cobb salad. It was perfect. But honestly, it’s a vino that drinks good equally an aperitif too. Not surprisingly these wines are pop amongst Germans who are accustomed to drinking wines similar Riesling. 

Recently I was at a tasting as well as peculiarly enjoyed trying wines from producers including Borgo La Caccia, Selva Capuzza, Ca Dei Frati as well as Bulgarini. Unfortunately these were non the wines I was able to locate inwards stores hither inwards the Bay Area. However I did discovery a bottle or ii of Lugana at Biondivino, Enoteca Vino Nostro and K&L Wine Merchants. But the best alternative was from The Wine House. They import straight from Ca’ Lojera as well as had 7 dissimilar bottles of varying vintages, including the Riserva as well as Superiore. The prices for the wines to a greater extent than oftentimes than non attain from the mid teens to the high thirties. Personally I’ll endure heading dorsum to The Wine House to purchase to a greater extent than of the 2014 Ca’ Lojera Bianco, on sale for merely $9.99, it’s a riduclous create make as well as is destined to endure my trouble solid vino this Summer. 

Disclaimer: I was a invitee at a Lugana tasting as well as dinner, notwithstanding I purchased the total bottle of wine. 

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