The wines from Tonino Lamborghini

Mention Lamborghini and most people think of sports cars, but if you say Lamborghini wines then there can be confusion. Both are intimately related to the maker of Lamborghini supercars, but they are rather different ventures. When Ferruccio lamborghini retired from car making in the 1974, he retired to a wine estate on the shores of Lake Trasimento and started making wines. That enterprise was taklen over by his daughterPatrizia when he died (and will become the subject of another blog).

I stumbled across the wines of Tonino Lamborghini at the last Wine Fair and recently tasted their dry Brachetto. This comes from the wine section of the designer accessories business of the elder son Tonino, which is divided into three series, all adorned with a special ceramic label on the bottle. There are 3 series of products - Sangue di Miura Super Italy: all DOCG wines (Anmarone, Barolo and Brunello); the Sangue di Miura with some IGTs and DOCs (this is the line of the dry Brachetto) and the Palazzo dei Vignoia which includes some very intriguing DOC blends.