Torcolato: The Prized Dessert Wine of Breganze with Maculan

Earlier this year I attended a virtual tasting hosted by Studio Cru featuring the wines of the Maculan winery located in the Veneto wine region of northeastern Italy.  Angela Maculan , 4 th generation operating the winery today, walked us through several wines that the winery produces with a fantastic overview of the territory.  I want to focus on a special dessert wine, Torcolato , that I had been unfamiliar with prior to the tasting.  Torcolato is not only a special wine that Maculan produces , but it is also unique to this particular area of the Ve neto , with in the territory of Breganze .     About the Maculan winery   The Maculan family ’s wine beginnings started with the great grandfather , Gaetano, whom used to sell wine that he made at his little osteria in the 20’s and 40’s. During World War II his son, Giovanni, started to make wine with his father to provide it for the army station .  In 1947 Giovanni decided to start and build the wi

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