Top 100 sweet wines of Lombardia
Discover the top 100 best sweet wines of Lombardia as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the sweet wines that are popular of Lombardia and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Three poles. Franciacorta DOCG, Italy's answer to Champagne: elegant brioche traditional-method sparklers (Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc), fine bubble and mineral profile. Alpine Valtellina: Nebbiolo (alias Chiavennasca) with fine tannins and red fruits, powerful Sforzato passito. Oltrepò Pavese: fresh Pinot Noir and fruity-sparkling Bonarda.
Lake Garda: crisp Lugana white. Alpine and lakeside vineyard, ~25,000 ha.
Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.
sweet wines from the region of Lombardia go well with generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts, pork or spicy food such as recipes of express cherry clafoutis, sauté of veal with olives (corsica) or korma chicken (india).
On the nose in the region of Lombardia 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 Lombardia is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.