Ottella 'Le Creete' Lugana 2025 750ml

ITALY : VENETO : LUGANA DOC

Trebbiano di Lugana

MED-BODIED, PINEAPPLE, GRAPEFRUIT, MANGO, MINERAL, NO OAK

Lugana is one of Italy's small DOCs built around a single indigenous variety — Trebbiano di Lugana, locally Turbiana, genetically the same grape as Verdicchio, grown at the southern tip of Lake Garda on white clay and limestone. Ottella sits on the Veneto side at San Benedetto di Lugana, and the family's patriarch, Lodovico Montresor, delimited the Lugana vineyards in the 1960s, work that led to the appellation's creation.

Le Creete is the estate's single-vineyard bottling — 20 hectares of 30- to 40-year-old vines on white clay laced with limestone and fossils, picked late, from the end of September into October. Fermentation is in stainless steel, followed by six to eight months on the fine lees with bâtonnage. No oak at any stage.

2025 ripened about ten days ahead of recent years on a slightly smaller crop, and the Lugana consortium called it a high-quality vintage, with intense aromatics and well-balanced acidity.

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