Lugana

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Lugana is a wine you're recommending for this time of year.

What do you drink Lugana with? What's your meal today?

Because we are still in Italy in summertime, because temperature is 86 Fahrenheit, Lugana is a white wine, very, very nice, that comes from the Lake of Garda.

I think we spoke about Lake of Garda in the past.

So in my opinion, it's the perfect time to drink a cold, but not too much cold, Lugana, with a recipe that is very fast.

You can use pasta, Italian pasta.

Don't forget to buy Italian pasta, whether this is spaghetti or macaroni or other type of pasta.

So if you go all the way up here to Lake Garda, and this is right near Verona, the very big city of Verona here, Romeo and Juliet.

area, but if we look at this lake here, on the bottom end here, we have an area called Lugana.

And that's where this grape varietal grows.

It's basically Verdicchio under another name.

But if you went into a store, how are you supposed to know that? Because it doesn't have the grape varietal like Pinot Grigio on there.

Great marketing, by the way, for Pinot Grigio to be right on the front of the label.

But you do have to know that Lugana, that's the only grape varietal that's allowed here.

So this was the original first DOC wine coming from the area of Lombardia.