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Bardolino
Light Corvina reds and chiaretto rosés on Lake Garda.
Le Fraghe
Le Fraghe is Matilde Poggi's organic estate at Cavaion Veronese, in the low hills between Lake Garda and the Adige valley north of Verona. She picked her first harvest in 1984 and now farms about 30 hectares, mostly Corvina, Rondinella and Garganega. The wines are Bardolino, Chiaretto rosé and Garganega whites, made with their own yeasts in steel, concrete and clay. The cellar is open on weekdays and Saturday mornings. Four tastings are booked on the estate's own website, and two apartments in the farmhouse take guests.
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About Le Fraghe
Matilde Poggi grew up in a family that sold its grapes to other wineries. After school in October she went out to pick, and she wanted to make the wine herself. Her first harvest under the Le Fraghe name was 1984. More than forty years on she still runs the estate from the stone farmhouse at Colombare, a hamlet of Cavaion Veronese. The vineyard came from her father, and she hopes one day to hand it to her three daughters. Every capsule carries the mark of FIVI, the Italian federation of independent growers who farm, make, bottle and sell their own wine.
The vines sit at about 190 metres on moraine soil full of stones. The glaciers left it behind when they carved out Lake Garda and the Adige valley. Monte Baldo rises to the north. The lake gives a mild, Mediterranean climate, and cool winds come down the Adige valley. The estate, roughly 42 football pitches of vines, has been certified organic since 2009.
Corvina leads. The Bardolino is four fifths Corvina with Rondinella for the rest, and the Ròdon Chiaretto is the same pair made as a rosé. Garganega, the white grape of the Verona hills, makes the Camporengo white. Four vineyard selections sit above them. Brol Grande is a Bardolino from one vineyard at Affi, in the Montebaldo zone. It spends a year in concrete and fourteen months in bottle before it is sold. Traccia di Bianco and Traccia di Rosa are bottled unfiltered. Montalto is a Cabernet Franc from Rivoli Veronese, raised for a year in clay amphorae.
No bought-in yeasts are used. The wines ferment and rest in steel, unlined concrete or clay. Matilde began closing the Chiaretto and the Camporengo with screw caps in 2008 to keep them fresh, and since the 2021 vintage every bottle has one.
The cellar is open Monday to Friday, 9 to 1 and 2 to 5.30, and Saturday 9 to 1, with a little notice. Four tastings are sold on the estate's own website. The Corvina Experience takes an hour. Another tasting runs from the reds to the whites and back. There is an hour of bread and wine, and a three-hour Bike & Wine ride with a cycling guide. The estate's online shop ships within Italy and Europe. Since 2011 two apartments on the first floor of the house have taken guests, for stays of two nights or more. The Verona exhibition centre is a quarter of an hour away. The estate also hosts private celebrations and business meetings, and provides the wine, the food and the organisation.
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Le Fraghe
Cavaion Veronese, Verona · Bardolino
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Visit & Experiences
4 bookable experiences at Le Fraghe
3 tastings and 1 tour, checked by our editors. From €19.
Tasting
Guided Corvina Wine Tasting at Le Fraghe in Bardolino
1h
From €19 per person
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Explore the versatility of the Corvina grape, from a fresh Chiaretto di Bardolino to a structured Bardolino, in the estate's tasting room.
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Tasting
Dal Rosso al Bianco e Ritorno tasting
1 hour 10 minutes
From €23 per person
A tasting that moves from the estate's reds to its whites and back, at the cellar in Cavaion Veronese. Pick a time and pay on the estate's own website.
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Food Pairing
Pane&Vino tasting
1 hour
From €35 per person
An hour at the cellar that pairs the estate's wines with bread. Pick a time and pay on the estate's own website.
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Bike & Wine ride and tasting
3 hours
From €90 per person
An easy ride with a cycling guide, then a visit to the cellar and a tasting of the wines with local specialities. About three hours, booked on the estate's own website.
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Località Colombare 3, 37010 Cavaion Veronese, Verona (Veneto)
What Le Fraghe makes
Le Fraghe's current bottle selection is led by Bardolino DOC. The clearest grape signal comes from Corvina.
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At Località Colombare 3, Cavaion Veronese, in the province of Verona. The estate sits between the Verona shore of Lake Garda and the Adige valley, with Monte Baldo to the north, and says it is 15 minutes from the Verona exhibition centre.
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