A love of the winery, the panorama of Lugana and artwork. The pioneering spirit and knowledge of a patriarch utilized to a challenge whose core values are high quality, respect and wonder. These ideas have given form to Ottella, an property that covers essentially the most treasured areas of the Lugana DOC. The corporate produces wines with a recognisable and chic character and gives experiences to those that love artwork, nature and wonder, in addition to wine.
Pioneering spirit
Lodovico’s ardour stemmed from the pioneering imaginative and prescient of his father, Giovanni, and grandfather, the eponymous Lodovico Montresor. Ottella’s founder immersed himself within the historical past and panorama of Lugana to deliver his dream, and that of the area as an entire, to life. Historiographic data present Ottella was the primary producer to make Lugana wine in 1905. Alongside researchers from the College of Brescia, it was Lodovico who delimited the vineyards of Lugana, resulting in the creation of the consorzio in 1967.
This passionate dedication and relentless dedication to high quality and character has been handed on to Lodovico’s sons, Francesco and Michele, protected guardians of a novel oenological, cultural and creative legacy. Now on the helm of the property, they’ve introduced Ottella to the twenty first century, staying true to his father’s teachings.
A dwelling legacy
Spanning 90 hectares, in essentially the most hallowed areas of the Lugana DOC, Ottella’s vineyards get pleasure from a novel microclimate that offers the wines a specific steadiness and magnificence. The cool Lake Garda breezes and the world’s excellent clay soils yield wines of soppy precision and balanced minerality, particularly these produced from Turbiana (Trebbiano di Lugana), the area’s indigenous grape.
Ottella’s vary is centred round a number of expressions of Turbiana, from a crisp DOC Lugana, to the oak-aged Molceo Riserva, by means of the one winery Le Creete and the expressive Again to Silence, fermented and aged in clay amphorae. Every bottle expresses a distinct facet of the excellent terroir of Lugana.
Inventive vocation
Ottella’s vineyard itself is an expression of the challenge’s core values: high quality, respect and wonder. Inbuilt 2013 and designed by famend architect Francesco Copersino, the constructing embodies the identical vein of sleekness and textural magnificence that runs by way of Ottella’s wines. An unique, modern challenge, the vineyard is a spot the place one is immersed in a multi-sensory expertise. Not simply by way of wine but in addition by way of the appreciation of the numerous artworks housed at Ottella.
The corporate’s wealthy historical past is as deep in artwork as it’s in wine. The longstanding dedication to the panorama of Lugana has developed hand in hand with creative and cultural initiatives. Additional to its in-house assortment, Ottella is the patron of the Ottella for GAM (Galleria d’Arte Moderna) Modern Artwork Award, and has been an energetic supporter of the Museo d’Arte Moderna Achille Forti in Verona, whose everlasting assortment now consists of 5 works donated by Ottella.
Discovering Ottella’s wines is, above all, an invite to enter a world of magnificence, each pure and creative. A go to to the vineyard is an unmissable alternative to have interaction all senses in distinctive experiences that evoke the teachings of Lodovico Montresor: an moral and aesthetic philosophy that brings wine, artwork, nature and tradition below the identical roof.
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