Perla Lugana PDO – 2025

Perla del Garda – PERLA Lugana PDO

The Perla del Garda Perla Lugana PDO 2025 is an uncomplicated, invigorating white wine with fragrant fruitiness and lightness from Lake Garda. On the nose, this white wine, made from 100% Turbiana grapes, displays notes of juicy peach, exotic pineapple, and yellow bananas. The Lugana Perla is soft and well-balanced, with a refreshing acidity that encourages drinking and a beautiful freshness. Well-chilled, it makes an stimulating aperitif, accompanies salmon canapés just as well as pasta with cream sauce or a crisp salad with crispy chicken.

The Perla del Garda Lugana PERLA was awarded 90 points by Falstaff – Lugana and Custoza Trophy 2021.

Winemaker Giovanna Prandini says about her wine: "One hundred percent Turbiana, its soft and fruity character perfectly balances its beautiful acidity. It's not only recommended as an aperitif; the Perla pairs well with baked fish and white meat."

Perla del Garda – Winemaking

In Lonato del Garda, on the southern shore of Lake Garda, the twenty-year-old vines grow in the hilly vineyards of San Carlo, San Zeno, and Casalin on calcareous soils of morainic origin. At an altitude of 150-250 m above sea level, this organic Lugana wine is produced by Azienda Perla del Garda. In the Guyot training system, 5,000 vines per hectare stand closely together, as the Turbiana grape variety grows vigorously and quickly produces quantity over quality if not properly managed. Winemaker Giovanna Prandini keeps them in check; planted densely, they must compete for water and nutrients, and consistent yield reduction on the vine is also practiced. Harvesting takes place early, from August to the beginning of September.

Harvested by hand in small crates, they are manually selected again at the winery, which is located in the middle of the vineyards, before being placed in a cold room to protect them from oxidative stress and preserve the fruit. After gentle whole-bunch pressing, fermentation takes place for 8-10 days in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks at approximately 15 degrees Celsius. The aging of the Perla Lugana PDO also takes place in stainless steel tanks.

Lugana PDO – White wine from Lake Garda

Since 1967, Lugana wine has held the PDO or DOC (Denominazione di origine controllata) designation as a controlled designation of origin. On approximately 700 hectares of vineyards covered by the DOC area on the southern shore of Lago di Garda, the grapes also known as Verdicchio Bianco grow: Turbiana and Trebbiano di Lugana. From them, a straw-yellow to greenish white wine is produced, which owes its freshness to the microclimate influenced by the large lake with mild temperatures and fresh winds.

Perla – A Wine and Its Values

• Origin White wine from Italy
• Growing region Lombardy
• Appellation Lugana PDO
• Grape variety Turbiana
• Giovanna Prandini
• 12% vol. Alcohol
• 5.5g/l Acidity
• 3.6g/l Residual sweetness