Time, our best ally

The Ca‘ dei Frati company has been known since 1782 as attested by a document which refers to „a house with a cellar located in Lugana in the Sermion area known as the place of the Friars“. In 1939 Felice Dal Cero, Domenico’s son, formerly a winemaker in Montecchia di Crosara, in the Verona area, moved to that house in Lugana di Sirmione, sensing immediately the high winemaking vocation of the area. After thirty years of work in the vineyard and in the cellar, in 1969, his son Pietro participates in the birth of the Doc by starting to bottle his first label of Lugana Casa dei Frati, later called Ca‘ dei Frati. In 2012 Pietro Dal Cero passed away leaving the cultural legacy to his wife Santa Rosa and his children Igino, Gian Franco and Anna Maria who manage the company with the same passion and determination.

The grapes of each vineyard are vinified separately in order to have a clearer vision of the expressions of our „terroir“. The processing takes place with the utmost respect for the raw material through an innovative technique refined over the years and which allows us to obtain intact and long-lived wines. The bond and the continuous comparison with our friend Gino Veronelli have helped us to conceive our wines projected over time.