Your cellar, your trips, and the wines you've been tracking are right where you left them.
New here?
Free, always. Education first, we'll never sell you anything you didn't ask to see.
Already have an account?
Enter the email you signed up with and we'll send a link to choose a new password.
The Dal Cero family's benchmark Lugana from Sirmione: 100% Turbiana off glacial clay, six months on fine lees in steel. White flowers, apricot and lemon over lively, savoury freshness. James Suckling gave the current 2025 92 points.
Prices read daily from 4 UK retailers. We earn a commission on some links; it never changes the order.
Stock is shown where the retailer publishes it, offers are sorted by price, and unavailable offers can’t be clicked.
No current retailer offer matches that combination.
Stock status is read from each retailer’s page once a day and may lag. Case and magnum listings show a per-bottle or per-litre equivalent and sit outside the best-price figure.
White flowers, balsamic notes and apricot when young, turning mineral with age. Peach, apple and ripe lemon fill in behind.
White flowers and apricot lead, the markers of a young I Frati. Peach, apple and ripe lemon follow behind, with a thread of almond.
Lemon
Apple
Apricot
Peach
Wet stones
Almond
HoneyFuller than most crisp whites at 13%, with a significant savoury core and strong, exuberant acidity, the two things Ca' dei Frati itself points to. Six months on fine lees in steel add flesh without a trace of oak.
Salty-fresh, citrus-edged and long. With a few years it moves towards iodine, spice and candied fruit.
The wine most people meet Lugana through, and still the reference: drinkers like it year after year, and the 2025 took 92 points from James Suckling. Drink it at release or let it deepen; the Dal Cero family builds it for both.
Three UK merchants carry the 2025: £16.50 at xtrawine, £18.83 at 8wines and £19.90 on sale at vino.com. Italian shops charge about 15 euros, so under £18 here is fair.
Half bottle 37.5cl · 2025: £10.10, 1 UK retailer
Magnum 150cl · 2025: £36.00, 1 UK retailer
The scores reflect a 13% steel-raised white that covers aperitif to main course, priced £16.50 to £21.63 in the UK today.
From delicate starters to steamed fish, saffron risotto and mature cheese, it covers more of a menu than most whites; only big meat dishes defeat it.
Friendly peach-and-apple fruit, no oak and a modest 13%: an easy first Lugana, though a step above impulse pricing.
UK prices run £16.50 to £21.63 while Italy pays about 15 euros; a 92-point white under £17 at xtrawine is honest value.
Under £17 if you shop around, and it flatters weeknight fish; the £21.63 end is more of a Friday bottle.
The reference Lugana with a 92-point current vintage: smart enough to open a dinner party, without trophy-bottle pricing.
Made to drink young but built to improve: the estate says it shows its best years after bottling, and drinkers still like the 2019, years on.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Lugana denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
The current 2025 is 13% and took 92 points from James Suckling. The 2024, 2022 and 2019 are all just as well liked by drinkers, year after year.
Producer-listed at 13% on the 2025 technical sheet. James Suckling scored it 92, per xtrawine; drink it now for flowers and apricot, or hold three to five years for the mineral side the estate promises.
Vivino's crowd rates the 2024 at 4.2 from nearly 5,000 reviews, level with every recent year of I Frati. Drink it through about 2029; the estate builds this wine to gain depth rather than fade.
Producer-listed at 13% on the 2025 technical sheet. James Suckling scored it 92, per xtrawine; drink it now for flowers and apricot, or hold three to five years for the mineral side the estate promises.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
From Via Frati in Lugana di Sirmione, the Dal Cero family has made I Frati the bottle most drinkers meet Lugana through. The DOC itself is a narrow band of glacial clay south of Lake Garda, shared between Brescia and Verona provinces.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Lugana is in the DOC tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Lugana falls within Lombardy, covering A band of glacial clay south of Lake Garda across Sirmione, Desenzano, Lonato and Pozzolengo in Brescia province, plus Peschiera del Garda in Verona.
Wine route
Half day · 4 stops
Open the drive
Winery
Lugana di Sirmione
Made at Azienda Agricola Ca’ dei Frati, Lugana di Sirmione. Directions
Wine route in the zone: Strada dei Vini del Garda.
The Dal Cero family grows its own fruit at Via Frati in Lugana di Sirmione, a run of some eighty-five years. Estate fruit from one small DOC zone costs more than bought-in grapes.
The wine sits in steel on its fine lees for at least six months, then rests two to three more in bottle. Most of a year of cellar time is priced in.
Fermentation and ageing happen in steel tanks; there is no barrel bill to recover in the price.
UK duty on a 13% 75cl bottle is £2.99 since February 2026. VAT is about £3.32 on vino.com's £19.90, so roughly £6.30 of that price never touches the wine.
Dishes that go with this wine
Ca' dei Frati pours young I Frati at about 10 degrees with delicate starters and fish. Shellfish, pasta and mature cheese sit well with it too.
The producer calls the acidity strong and exuberant, and it works like the lemon wedge: it brightens shellfish and cuts through lake fish. The salty side of the wine echoes the brine.
Try with: Mussels · Grilled prawns · Oysters · Lake Garda whitefish
I Frati carries more weight than most crisp whites, so creamy rice does not flatten it. A Lombard wine beside Lombardy's saffron risotto is the home match.
Try with: Risotto alla Milanese · Seafood risotto · Prawn risotto
Butter and oily fish coat the mouth; this wine's fresh acidity and savoury core rinse it clean. The producer's brief runs to grilled fish, and the weight here handles the richer end.
Try with: Miso Black Cod · Roast sea bream · Trout with butter and sage
Ca' dei Frati pours young I Frati at about 10 degrees with cold or warm starters that stay delicate. White flowers and apricot in the glass lift mozzarella, melon and raw vegetables.
Try with: Insalata Caprese · Prosciutto e melone · Warm vegetable antipasti
Salt makes a fruity white taste rounder, and mature and hard cheese sit naturally with this wine. The wine's own savoury edge keeps the match from turning sweet.
Try with: Grana Padano · Parmigiano Reggiano · Anchovy crostini
Hot chilli burns off the white flowers and apricot and makes 13% feel hotter, while long-braised meat outweighs a white built for fish. Pour a structured red instead.
Skip with: Vindaloo · Sichuan hotpot · Oxtail stew · Brasato al Barolo · Pairing guide →
The wine shows its best years after bottling, moving into iodine, spice and candied fruit. The market knows it: the 2022 averages 31.90 euros against 15.70 for the current release, and the 2019 carries a Wine Enthusiast 91 and is still well liked by drinkers.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Pour it straight from the bottle.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
Made to drink young but built to improve: the estate says it shows its best years after bottling, and drinkers still like the 2019, years on.
£13.34 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at 8wines, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 28 Oct 2026, 09:07 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.
Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic. Drinkers score it 4.2 out of 5 from 5,594 ratings on Vivino.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · Medium100% Turbiana, the Lugana DOC grape also sold as Trebbiano di Lugana. Ca' dei Frati grows it on the glacial clay south of Lake Garda. The wine ferments in steel and rests at least six months before a short spell in bottle.
Young, it is fresh and linear: white flowers, balsamic notes and apricot, with peach, apple and ripe lemon behind. Give it a few years and it turns mineral, with iodine, spice and candied fruit.
Fish is Ca' dei Frati's own brief: boiled, steamed or grilled, plus delicate cold or warm starters at about 10 degrees. Shellfish, pasta and mature cheese work too, and its savoury freshness suits saffron risotto.
Yes. Ca' dei Frati says it shows its best years after bottling, and it has ageing potential beyond five years. Drinkers agree: they still like the 2019, years on.
The 2025 sits between £16.50 and £21.63 across xtrawine, 8wines and vino.com right now, with sale prices dipping lower. Italian shops charge about 15 euros, so anything under £18 here is a fair deal.
5 retailers
Lugana
5 retailers
£19.94
+ delivery
4 retailers
Lugana
4 retailers
£16.13
+ delivery
3 retailers
Lugana
3 retailers
£22.30
+ delivery
3 retailers
Lugana
3 retailers
£17.50
+ delivery
Affiliate disclosure. Some links above are affiliate links. If you buy through them we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Editorial coverage, ratings and tasting notes are written independently and a retailer cannot pay to be listed or to be ranked higher.
How retailer prices are sourced.
Prices and stock are read from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Outbound buy links carry rel="nofollow sponsored noopener". The list is sorted by price; we do not accept payment for placement.
What we will never do. Imply we tasted a bottle when we didn’t. Imply stock when a retailer is out. Imply independence on links that are paid affiliate links.
DOC
checked 
