"CARLEVARI" BARDOLINO
PRODUCER: CANTINE FERLIGA
DOC VENETO

In the Bardolino production zone, the vine has been cultivated since the Bronze Age, as has been established by the discovery of fossilized grape seeds in the remains of lake dwellings built on piles at Peschiera, Lazise, Cisano, Pacengo and Bor.

The name, which is clearly of Germanic origin, could be derived, as legend has it, from Bardala, daughter of King Axuletus and grand-daughter of Mantus, founder of Mantua. The tale was originally told by the Latin poet Virgil and later included in the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

In the Middle Ages, when there was a general decline in agricultural production, the cultivation and making of Bardolino was continued by the monks of the Church of San Colombano, who thereby saved the wine from extinction.