Top 100 sweet wines of Lombardie
Discover the top 100 best sweet wines of Lombardie as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the sweet wines that are popular of Lombardie and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Lombardie
Lombardy is one of Italy's largest and most populous regions, located in the north-central Part of the country. It's home to a handful of popular and well-known wine styles, including the Bright, cherry-scented Valtellina and the high-quality Sparkling wines Franciacorta and Oltrepo Pavese Metodo Classico. Lombardy is Italy's industrial powerhouse, with the country's second largest city (Milan) as its regional capital. Despite this, the region has vast tracts of unspoiled countryside, home to many small wineries that produce a significant portion of the region's annual wine production of 1.
2 million hectoliters. A vast and geographically Complex region, Lombardy is well positioned to offer a wide range of wine styles. There are five DOCGs, 21 DOCs and 15 PGIs. The Oltrepo Pavese area stands out as one of the most important and best known, not only for its sparkling wine Oltrepo Pavese Metodo Classico DOCG, but also, more recently, for its Pinot Grigio, which since 2008 has its own independent DOC (Oltrepo Pavese Pinot Grigio).
Franciacorta, the second of Lombardy's two DOCG sparkling wines, comes from the booming and highly regarded vineyards between Brescia and Lake Iseo.
Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay
The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.
Food and wine pairing with a sweet wine of Lombardie
sweet wines from the region of Lombardie go well with generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts, pork or spicy food such as recipes of brownies with nuts, salted lentils or japanese curry.
Organoleptic analysis of sweet wine of Lombardie
On the nose in the region of Lombardie often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, spices or citrus fruit. In the mouth in the region of Lombardie is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
News from the vineyard of Lombardie
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