La Feliciana, Lugana Felugan

Wine Type: White

Grape(s): 100% Turbiana/Verdicchio

Country: Italy

Region: Lugana DOC, Lombardy and Veneto

Organic: No

Vegan: No

ABV: 13%

Tasting Notes: A very inviting nose of firm pear fruit and yellow plum with verbena notes. On the palate this is bright with lively lemon cut and spicy, softer yellow flesh. Delightfully perky but with texture too, the palate shows nice firmness to the fruit, a comfortable weight and good depth. There is a reassuring, firm line of minerality underpinning everything, adding such focus and its backed by lovely juicy acidity. 

Winemaking: La Feliciana is a small winery south of Lake Garda, in the Commune of Pozzolengo, and remarkably peaceful, with gentle rolling hills and vineyards stretching off into the distance; the only thing that would make you wonder if it has always been this way is the massive stone tower built on a low hill a couple of miles away: It's the monument to the Battle of San Martino, fought by the Piemontese against half of the Austrian army while their French allies were fighting the other half at Solferino, a few miles away.