Brolettino

Characteristics

This is the wine of our great native vine: the Turbiana. Fully ripe grapes are harvested around the middle of October and the highly productive land gives us a product with structure and a great capacity for ageing. All its complexity is tangible to the taste. To the nose, there are hints of ripe fruit, peaches, yellow apples, with fresh, balsamic notes. The palate is enveloped by an invasion of flavour, maintaining all its freshness and elegance. The full structure is accompanied by a taut acidity and a characteristic savouriness that completely cleanse the palate, leaving it full of delicate aromas. Perfect for winter soups, legumes and pasta with white sauces, white meat, medium seasoned cheese, fish that is cooked long and well and shellfish. Serve at a temperature of 10°- 12° C.

Technical data

Vines used:	100% Turbiana
Soil composition:	limestone – clay
Cultivation system:	simple and double Guyot
Vinification type:	starts in steel completed in barrique
Malolactic fermentation:	partially performed
Refinement and development:	in barriques for 7/8 months, followed by 3 months in the bottle
Alcohol content:	13,5%
Total acidity:	6,60 g/L
Volatile acidity:	0,30 g/L
pH:	3,25
Dry extract:	22,5 g/L

The Cellar

The Ca’ dei Frati company has been renowned since 1782, as confirmed by a document that refers to “a house with a cellar located in Lugana in the Sermion district known as the place of the Friars”.

In 1939, Felice Dal Cero, son of Domenico, formerly a wine grower in Montecchia di Crosara near Verona, moved to that very house in Lugana di Sirmione, immediately realising the area’s potential for vine cultivation.

After thirty years working in the vineyard and the cellar, his son Pietro took part in the creation of the DOC in 1969, bottling his first wine with the label Lugana Casa dei Frati, later named Ca’ dei Frati.

In 2012, Pietro Dal Cero passed away, leaving the cultural legacy to his wife Santa Rosa and children Igino, Gian Franco and Anna Maria, who run the company with the same passion and determination.

Le nostre Wine Experience

View of the cellar, tasting and much more

The closed cellar WINE EXPERIENCE includes: visit in Italian to the Ca’ dei Frati cellar with the family’s sommelier (about 1 hour), tasting of 3 wines according to availability (generally sparkling, still white, red) with savory aperitif from the family’s pastry shop. Fenice, lunch or dinner depending on the time of visit in our structure on the lake 1km from the cellar at La Lugana Trattoria with Amarone Pietro Dal Cero DOCG menu (risotto with Amarone and Monte Veronese and a second course of meat with restricted ‘Amarone, a taste of Amarone Pietro Dal Cero and a sweet treat, extra water and coffee to be paid on site).