Guerrieri Rizzardi Lugana (DOC) 2022, 13.5%
€19.95 O’Briens Wine
A wine “with quite a strong character”, “very different to Soave”.
Lugana is one of Italy’s classic white wines and this one, vibrant and dry, comes from the award-winning Rizzardi family winery in the Veneto. The Trebbiano grapes for the wine are sourced from twenty-five-year-old vines from several vineyards in Peschiera del Garda. A lively and refreshing wine, with stone fruits and blossom aromas, it’s a great wine to pair with all sorts of seafood – try it with prawns or even sushi.
Yet Count Guiuseppe Rizzardi, during a pre-Christmas Zoom tasting, emphasised that it matches very well with freshwater fish (such as trout). “It is produced on the (breezy) southern shores of Lake Garda” and ‘is enjoyed very much locally”. He said it is just the 3rd vintage of this wine which has “quite a strong character”, “very different to Soave”.
Smoked salmon was also mentioned as a pairing and we tried it with a salad that featured the superb hot smoked salmon from Hederman’s and it worked very well indeed. Its “amazing freshness…without being too acidic…” enhances its role when used as an aperitif or just on its own.
Highly Recommended
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