DOP Bardolino Chiaretto wines awarded at the Gilbert & Gaillard International Challenge

Bardolino Chiaretto D.O.P. is produced on the eastern shore of Lake Garda, in the province of Verona, in the Veneto region. The production area covers sixteen communes, six of which make up the historic Classico zone: Affi, Bardolino, Garda, Lazise, Costermano sul Garda and Cavaion Veronese, joined by ten further communes stretching toward the plain and the lower slopes of Monte Baldo. The vineyards lie within the morainic amphitheatre shaped by the lake's ancient glaciers: hills with gentle elevation changes, rocky outcrops in the north, and fluvioglacial plains running between the morainic formations. The climate, softened by the lake, blends Mediterranean influences along the shore, continental conditions inland, and mountain conditions at higher elevation. The wines rely mainly on corvina, complemented by corvinone, rondinella, molinara and other red varieties authorized in the province of Verona.