Delicate red in the glass, it offers an intense bouquet of fruits, especially cherry and morello cherry. When tasted it evolves into intense spicy notes of pepper with exceptional persistence.  

The vineyards are located between 100 and 120 meters above sea level with southern exposure. Guyot training system. Calcareous moraine soil, clayey with gravel.  

Perhaps, more than with the Cavalchina, the story begins with his grandfather Luciano; it was he who bought the first vineyards and then, in 1948, who built the winery that also housed a pomace distillery until 1967. The company was born as a game and a passion, an activity complementary to the main one of leather processing. Luciano was an eclectic person: he loved wine, but also lyric. This last passion of his led him to meet illustrious people, so much so that Maria Callas was his guest. His industry was among the few in Italy to manufacture football boots and this led him to also be a football player dealer. The stories of Luciano, Cavalchina and Custoza are linked and sometimes overlap. It was he who first, in 1962, decided to call the white wine of the area “Custoza”, he also sketched a first “recipe”: a wine obtained from the vines of Fernanda, Trebbiano and Garganega and led it to establish itself in the markets, then more important, of Rome and Milan.

Pairing Suggestions: It goes well with first courses and white meats and some fish, especially cod.

Maturation: The Bardolino is then stored in steel in contact with its own yeasts, regularly brought back into suspension, until March when it is bottled.