Lugana (Lombardy)

Trebbiano di Lugana

White Wine

Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

This wine shows a beautiful and brilliant golden color and nuances of straw yellow, very transparent. The nose has good personality, clean, elegant, intense, refined and pleasing aromas of pineapple, hawthorn, coffee, broom, litchi, apple, hazelnut and vanilla as well as aromas of wood. In mouth is very correspondent to the nose, very balanced, intense and of good body, pleasing crispness. A well made wine. The finish is persistent with clean and pleasing flavors of pear, coffee and apple. Brolettino Grand'Annata is aged in barrique for 15 months and for 24 months in bottle.

Alcohol: 13.5%

Roasted fish, Roasted meat, Stuffed pasta with meat

Suggested glass

12 °C
(53 °F)

(Bodied and Mature White Wines)

Issue 8, May 2003

Cà dei Frati (Italy)

(Lombardy)

Groppello, Marzemino, Sangiovese, Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot

Red Wine

Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

This wine shows an intense ruby red color and nuances of ruby red, moderate transparency. The nose denotes elegance and refined, intense and clean aromas such as black cherry, cocoa, leather, raspberry, licorice, blueberry, plum, black currant and vanilla. The mouth reveals good correspondence to the nose, round and soft attack however balanced, full body and intense flavors. The finish is persistent with flavors of plum, black cherry and black currant. A well made wine. Ronchedone is aged in barrique for 14 months followed by 10 months in bottle.

Alcohol: 14%

Game, Roasted meat, Hard cheese, Braised meat, Stewed meat

Suggested glass

18 °C
(64 °F)

(Bodied or Mature Red Wines)

April 2003

Tre Filer 2000

Cà dei Frati (Italy)

(Lombardy)

Trebbiano di Lugana (60%), Chardonnay (20%), Sauvignon Blanc (20%)
Sweet Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✧

A great sweet wine. It shows a beautiful and intense golden yellow color and nuances of golden yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals great personality, intense, rich, pleasing and refined aromas of dried apricot, pineapple, ripe banana, peach jam, broom, litchi, apple, honey, hazelnut, pear, gooseberry and vanilla. In mouth is very agreeable with excellent correspondence to the nose, very balanced sweetness, intense flavors. The finish is very persistent, practically endless, with very long, clean and pleasing flavors of apricot, pear, honey, litchi, pineapple, banana and apple. A great wine. Tre Filer is produced with graped dried on mats and is aged for 12-14 months in barrique and for one year in bottle.

Alcohol: 13.5%

Hard and piquant cheese, confectionery, jam tarts

Suggested glass	12 °C (53 °F)
(Sweet Wines)

Issue 8, May 2003

Cà dei Frati

Lombardy (Italy)

Lugana Brolettino Grand'Annata 1999

Cà dei Frati (Italy)

Ronchedone 2000

Cà dei Frati (Italy)

Tre Filer 2000

Cà dei Frati (Italy)