484: Erin Scala Looks Deep Into Lake Garda

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🗓️ 28 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Erin Scala explores the long history and many recent changes in the area around Lake Garda and in the Bardolino wine zone, in the northeastern Italy.

Erin speaks with a number of different winemakers and specialists to clarify the situation around the evolution of winemaking in the Bardolino zone, from Roman times to the present day. She addresses the shift in the area in recent years towards rosé production, and explores both why this has occurred as well as the historical precedents for it. She enunciates how the wineries in the area vary in their choice of technique, and describes the different styles of the resulting wines. Erin examines both the shifting cultural and climatic settings for the wine production of this area. She explains how this Lake area - now well within Italy - was once at the border with Austria, as well as the recent effects of climate change there. She discusses the typical foods of the place, as well as the microclimate created by its defining feature: the lake. Erin also looks ahead to what wine styles may become more prevalent in the zone in the future.

If you have not kept up with the rapid changes for wine within the Bardolino zone in recent years, this episode is a complete and crucial overview of the situation on the ground.

This episode features commentary from:

Gabriele Rausse, Gabrielle Rausse Winery

Luca Valetti, Cantina Valetti

Roberta Bricolo, Gorgo

Francesco Piona, Cavalchina

Marco Ruffato, Le Ginestra

Matilde Poggi, Le Fraghe

Daniele Domenico Delaini, Villa Calicantus

Andreas Berger, Weingut Thurnhof

Fabio Zenato, Le Morette

Franco Christoforetti, Villa Bella

Giulio Cosentino, Albino Piona

Angelo Peretti, author of the book "Il Bardolino"

Katherine Cole, journalist and author of the book "Rosé All Day: The Essential Guide to Your New Favorite Wine"

Special Thanks To:

Irene Graziotto

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.4	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.4	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, In this episode, we're exploring the wines of Lake Garda.
0:29.8	The bulk of these interviews took place in December 2019 just before the coronavirus pandemic.
0:36.0	Flying into the region where you'll find Lake Garda, you look down and you see the series of glacial lakes that melted into
0:46.8	alpine crevices. In the sun they sparkle and shine like pale blue moonstones.
0:53.3	And as the plane descends closer to the snow-capped Alps,
0:56.8	you just know you're about to be in a special place
0:59.9	of elegance amidst a rugged mountain backdrop. The greater region we're exploring today
1:05.5	is this particular place in the Alps where the glacial lakes lie one after the other
1:10.1	tucked into the foothills, not unlike the Finger Lakes, but in this case they're nestled up against the majestic domineering mountain range of the Alps.
1:19.0	If you're not familiar with this region, you'll hear some new words.
1:22.0	Garda is the lake, Lake Garda.
1:24.8	Bardolino is an historic town on the southeast banks of the lake and Bardolino
1:30.5	has also become the wine region so sometimes when people reference Bardolino has also become the wine region. So sometimes when people reference
1:34.0	Bartolino they're talking about the town, sometimes they're talking about the
1:37.4	wine region. You'll also hear the word kiweto, which means pale pink one
1:42.1	and it refers to the rosé from Bardolino.
1:45.0	Lake Garda is a fascinating place.
1:50.0	The wine region as you can imagine is dominated by the
1:57.2	microclimate created by the lake.
2:01.2	You have to understand that because all the water which is there the climate is very different from when you go 50 miles east or west of the Lake of Garso.
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