Falstaff: high ratings for Zenato and Santa Cristina: Lugana, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot Garda received high rewards.
This Lugana Riserva is the fruit of the Zenato family’s genuine passion and a reflection of their history in the appellation.
The grapes for this wine come from the oldest vines on their Podere Massoni farm. They are harvested slightly late, around mid-October.
Fermentation takes place in oak cask (70%) and stainless steel (30%).
Light brilliant gold in color, this wine delivers intense multi-faceted aromas on the nose, with floral and citrus notes, spices, white plum, and vanilla.
On the palate, it’s rich in flavor, with great depth and balance.
An ideal white for aging.
Produced with 100% Trebbiano di Lugana, this wine brightens up the glass with its straw yellow color.
Its multifaceted nose is aromatic, fresh, and fruity, with notes of grape, peach, citron, grapefruit, and a hint of pineapple, which adds tropical character.
On the palate, the wine is approachable, fresh, and has good minerality.
Vinification: gentle pressing and fermentation for 15/20 days in stainless steel tanks at a controlled temperature of 16-18 degrees. Refinement for 4-5 months in stainless steel tanks followed by 2-3 months in bottles before sale
Made with 100% Trebbiano di Lugana grapes, this classic method wine has intense straw yellow color and hints of gold.
With elegant lingering bubbles and creamy texture, it’s made from a top selection of grapes that give it clean and enchanting aromas with a touch of face powder.
On the palate, it’s balanced and enchanting, joyous but delicate, with a silky acidity that gives it focus and clarity.
Harvest for this wine takes place mid-September, with a careful selection of the fruit.
The Zenato Lugana San Benedetto is made from a selection of the best grapes from the eponymous estate. The vineyards are some of the appellation’s most historic and are considered to be among its best.
Rich in personality and with great depth, this wine delivers a wide spectrum of fresh and complex aromas on the nose.
It’s full-bodied and full-flavored in the mouth, with notes that shift from dried apple and pineapple to pear and vanilla. Its long, brilliant finish lingers with delicious results.
Made with 100% Chardonnay grapes, this wine is brilliant straw yellow in color.
On the nose, aromas of hawthorn flower and cherry blossom gradually open up into notes of green apple and apricot with delicate hints of dried fruit, hazelnut, and almond.
On the nose, the wine is balanced with ap-proachable citron flavors that balance its varietal expressiveness.
Vinification begins with a cooling of the grapes that allows the winemaker to fully extract their aromatics.
The must, obtained from a gentle pressing, is then clarified and racked to stainless-steel tanks where alcoholic fermentation is carried out at low temperatures (15-17 °C.) for roughly 15 days.
Made from Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, this wine is deep ruby red in color.
It’s complex on the nose and rich with lin-gering aromas that alternate between red fruit, ripe fruit, jam, and underly-ing hints of vanilla, spice, and a very light yet seductive herbaceous note.
It’s dry and well bodied on the palate, with wonderfully balanced tannic structure that makes it ideal for long-term aging.
Great and aristocratic red wine for aging, the result of very careful and traditional winemaking with Merlot variety grapes from the Garda area.
After the harvesting rigorously done by hand, and a qualitative selection of grapes, the process of crushing and de-stemming will follow and subsequently a traditional procedure of maceration on its lees for about 5-6 days in small steel tanks will complete the first phase. When the alcoholic fermentation will be completed, it will be necessary to do two more operations, firstly repressing again the lees in order to squeeze the remaining must and then separating the same lees from the wine obtained. At this point the wine will complete malolactic fermentation and it will be aged partly in French barriques and partly in Slavonian oak vats. A very accurate aging in bottle will take place.
Zenato. The soul of Lugana and the Heart of Valpolicella.
95 hectares of top vineyards in Lugana and Valpolicella’s “classic zone.”
Two faces: One white, the other red, both emblems of high-quality wines that are born through a visceral passion for the land, through respect for time, through a family tradition that has championed local grape varieties for 60 years.
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