List of products by brand Nunzio Ghiraldi

Nunzio Ghiraldi is one of the reference families of Lugana di Sirmione — the most gifted production zone in the entire appellation. Founded in 1953 when grandfather Nunzio, a Cremonese engineer, purchased the Podere Sant'Onorata on the Lombard shores of Lake Garda. Today grandson Nunzio manages 35 total hectares of Turbiana on deep clay soils, harvests exclusively by hand and produces Lugana with minimum cellar intervention. Their ambition: a Lugana modern in style but ancient in its essence.

The story of Nunzio Ghiraldi begins in 1953, when grandfather Nunzio — a Cremonese engineer who had followed his passion for viticulture — purchased the Podere Sant'Onorata in Lugana di Sirmione, on the Lombard shores of Lake Garda. At the time Lugana was still a little-known wine, but the conditions were already ideal: the mild climate of the lake's influence, the winds from the mountains and above all the deep, mineral-rich clay soils of the southern Garda shore, where the Turbiana — the Trebbiano di Lugana — finds its most natural and gifted terroir.

For years grandfather Nunzio sold his grapes to large wineries, watching others take the credit for what grew in his vineyards. Then everything changed. About twenty years ago, grandson Nunzio — a law graduate but with viticulture in his blood like his grandfather — decided to take over the estate and begin producing his own wines, valorising those same vines the grandfather had planted, which had by then reached 60 years of age. A courageous choice that has transformed Nunzio Ghiraldi into one of the most respected reference producers in the Lugana appellation.

Today the estate counts approximately 35 total hectares — the 20-hectare Podere Sant'Onorata with over-sixty-year-old vines, plus a further 15 hectares acquired since 1995 — all planted to Turbiana di Lugana on the clay soils of the so-called "golden mile" immediately south of the lake, where the natural grape concentration reaches levels unattainable elsewhere in the appellation. The harvest is exclusively manual, always whole-bunch press with minimal skin contact, and yields are kept below 65 hl/ha. The cellar — functional and modern, without aesthetic pretensions — works entirely in stainless steel: no wood, no aromatic interference, just Turbiana in its purest expression.

Nunzio's philosophy is perfectly captured in the estate's guiding principle: to produce a Lugana modern in style but ancient in its essence. Two wines embody this vision — the Sant'Onorata, a cru from the historic estate's over-sixty-year-old vines, and Il Gruccione, a selection from vineyards of varying ages that Nunzio considers the finest possible expression of pure Turbiana — both available at Emporio Divino as part of the selection of the finest artisan producers of Lake Garda.