TYPICAL WINES OF GARDA LAKE AND ITS TERRITORY
WINE LUGANA
Among the typical wines of Garda, wine Lugana is one of the most popular. Characteristic of this wine doc are the land and the climate. A flat and fertile land, rich in limestone, minerals, clay originates from the layered deposits and moraine hills that points becomes more sandy, a particularly mild microclimate, with no sudden changes in temperature and regulated by the breezes of the lake. The wine Lugana is divided into five categories: “basic”, “top”, “reserve“, “late harvest“, “sparkling”.
Lugana Base: is the majority of the production
Lugana Superior: must have at least one year after the harvest of aging, it becomes more structured with the wooden walkway.
Lugana Reserve: must have at least twenty four months of aging or aging of the date of harvest, of which six in the bottle.
Late Harvest: you get only with a late harvest of the grapes in late October and early November, is a new type of production.
Spumante is the classical method charmat with a production that boasts both quality and history, but poor in quantity.