Featured Wines - May 1999

Antoine Luginbuhl arrived in Castellina in Chianti with his family in 1980, after choosing Casina di Cornia as the ideal place to live and work. His imagination had been fired by the thick walls of the houses built on the outlines of 12th century buildings and the continuous alternation of warm hills, verdant crops, and an untilled parcel of land along a white road leading up to a southwestern facing hillside...

Fratelli Zenato is a third generation family-owned vineyard and winery. Located in the heart of the prized Lugana DOC district on the southern slopes of Lake Garda, this vineyard enjoys its own unique microclimate. Almost totally surrounded by mountains, the Zenato family vineyards are protected from cold Alpine winds, but they also benefit from the warm breeze of the Po Valley to the south...