Exceptional white wines: A primer on the hidden styles from Lugana, Italy

Exceptional white wines: A primer on the hidden styles from Lugana, Italy

Nestled along the southern shores of Lake Garda in northern Italy lies a small but increasingly significant wine region that produces some of the country’s most distinctive white wines.  Lugana, straddling the border between the Lombardy and Veneto regions, has quietly been producing exceptional white wines for centuries, yet remains relatively unknown to many wine enthusiasts outside of Europe. I was fortunate to be invited to a tasting of Luga…