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Garda drives innovation with Crémant and lower alcohol wines

Published:  27 April, 2026

Northern Italy’s Garda DOC is best known as an ‘umbrella’ appellation, overlapping territories such as Lugana, Bardolino, Valpolicella, Soave and six others besides, offering up a medley of varieties and styles from the surrounding Veneto vineyards. Created in 1996, it offers greater flexibility to producers than the historic regional DOCs and, as such, it is on the march, pushing two new styles of wine that the Consorzio believes will be an asset to the collective region.

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Italy Report: Going Garganega

Published:  31 July, 2024

Both beguiling and bewildering, Soave’s diversity is being harnessed to push a message of quality. Andrew Catchpole takes a taste.

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