Lugana I Frati 2024

Description

Ca' dei Frati Lugana I Frati is a Lugana DOC white wine, produced in Lombardy, in the area of lower Lake Garda. It is the flagship product of the I Frati Lugana winery, located in Lugana di Sirmione and founded in 1939. Ca' dei Frati Lugana is produced exclusively with Turbiana grapes, the native grape par excellence of lower Lombardy, which is also known as Trebbiano di Lugana. This white wine follows a rather long and complex winemaking process. The grapes are harvested from various local vineyards, all grown on clay and limestone soils, after careful selection of the best berries. The wine is vinified in steel barrels, where it is then aged for at least six months with selected fine yeasts. The uniqueness of this product lies in the fact that it is left to age for an additional six months in glass bottles before being released for sale. It can be consumed immediately in the year of bottling, but the winery itself recommends appreciating it after a few years, letting it age in its bottle in a cool area away from direct light. This allows it to fully express its potential in terms of flavor and aroma. Ca' dei Frati Lugana I Frati has received significant national and international recognition over the years.

Details

Perfume

In its youth it is fresh, linear and endowed with great finesse and elegance, with delicate white flower and balsamic notes, hints of apricot and almond. Time allows it to evolve, expressing its mineral notes with greater determination. The wine acquires its own complexity with hints of iodine, spices and candied fruit.

Color

Brilliant light yellow

Taste

In the mouth it is capable of enveloping the entire palate thanks to an important savoury essence accompanied by lively and exuberant acidity

Serve at:

10 - 12 °C.

Longevity:

03 - 05 years

Producer

Producer

Ca dei Frati

From this winery

• Start up year: 1939
• Oenologist: Igino Dal Cero
• Hectares: 120

The company Ca' dei Frati has been known since 1782 as evidenced by a document that refers to 'a house with a cellar located in Lugana in the tener of Sirmione called the place of the Friars'.

It was in 1939 when Felice Dal Cero, son of Domenico, already a winemaker in Montecchia Crosara in Verona, moved in that house, Lugana of Sirmione, sensing immediately the wine-growing area.
After 30 years of work in the vineyard and winery in 1969, his son Peter participated in the creation of Doc started to bottle its first Lugana Casa dei Frati label.

Today, with his wife Santa Rosa cultural heritage has been passed on to children Igino, Gian Franco and Anna Maria who run the company with the same passion and determination.

Mutual respect, the union of the family, defined roles and the link to their territory on the shores of Lake Garda, represent the true strength of the Dal Cero family

Ca'dei Frati treasures of the past and looks to the future through a research and development of what was built in 70 years of wines. Read more

Lombardy

Technical Sheet

Name	Ca dei Frati Lugana I Frati 2024
Type	White still
Denomination	Lugana DOC
Vintage	2024
Size	0,75 l
Alcohol content	13.0% by volume
Grape varieties	100% Turbiana
Country	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Vendor	Ca dei Frati
Origin	Lugana di Sirmione (BS)
Soil composition	Calcareous-clayey
Cultivation system	Single and double Guyot
Yield per hectare	90 q.
Wine making	Steel
Aging	In steel on fine lees 6 months, followed by 2 months in the bottle.
Total acidity	6.4 gr/L
PH	3.2
Dry extract	21.0 gr/L
Allergens	Contains sulphites