LE FRAGHE azienda agricola

About Winery and Wines

I was born in 1962, the third of six children, and I grow grapes and make wine in Cavaion Veronese, in the heart of the Bardolino production zone. My first harvest was in 1984; prior to that year the grapes were sold to another winery. Even as a young child I remember hearing the conversations about vines and wine, and I can recall those Octobers, when we went right from school to harvesting the grapes. This world, marked by the changing of the seasons, has always fascinated me, and the desire slowly grew in me to become part of it, to contribute to it, to learn how to listen to the vineyard and to the land, to bring forth from them my own wines. I had no ready-made furrow, and so I was able to experiment with grape varieties, training methods, and blends, with the result that I currently now have 28 hectares of vineyard, planted mainly to the Corvina grape.< /br> I love the countryside all around me, the land that has been my companion every moment of my life: Monte Baldo rising up so majestically to the north, Lake Garda with its uniquely Mediterranean climate, the Valdadige that conveys the cools winds from the north. I love this earth, every square metre of it somehow different, brought here by the glaciers that carved out, in remotest times, the the bed of the lake and the valley of the Adige river. Everything that I do in the vineyard is aimed at respecting and preserving those unique and literally incomparable qualities that I find only in my wines. I am grateful to my father, who gave me the opportunity of living here and of exercising stewardship over this land. It is my hope to be able to hand it over some day to my three daughters and to have them pass it on to their children.

Spread throughout the picturesque countryside surrounding our Le Fraghe winery, close up to Lake Garda and lying in the morainal Verona-area hills, are many fine restaurants that offer guests traditional local dishes, which feature fresh lake fish, grilled meats, and much more. We offer here a few of the best establishments, all with excellent wine lists and final local cuisine. This area has always been famous for its outstanding wines. The earliest evidence for cultivating grapes for wine, in fact, goes back to the Paleovenetian age in the 8th-7th centuries BC.