THE WINE OFFERED TO THE WINNING ATHLETES OF THE OLYMPICS
Giuseppe Lucà Winery
The most famous of Calabrian wines is Cirò
who we are
La Casa Vinicola Lucà
La Casa Vinicola Lucà is proud to offer strictly genuine and high quality wines to enthusiasts.
The vinification of the grapes, coming from vineyards located in the heart of the typical area, is done using traditional methods, with the exclusion of any industrial process; the result is a product that clearly stands out for its characteristics, acquiring all the delicate bouquet of the antique CIRÒ.
Only wine produced in exceptional vintages is selected, aged and destined for bottling.
A long experience and the superior quality of the wines produced daily contribute to making national and foreign merchants known.
THE OLDEST WINE IN THE WORLD
The most famous of Calabrian wines is Cirò
Which can be considered as the oldest alcoholic beverage in the world today. In fact, it seems that it descends from the same strain of the vine with which the precious Cremissa wine was prepared, at the time of Greek civilization, offered as a gift to athletes who returned victorious from the Olympics.
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the territory
cirò
The rows that sprout from the sides of the Crotone coast of Cirò evoke beauty to be protected and places to be preserved. They are the memory of an ancient and still living history: here, set between water and land, between sea and mountains, the ancient Krimisa, now Cirò, was one of the first cities of Magna Graecia and legend has it that its wine was wine of the Olympics. Offered as a gift to the winners of the competitions to recover from the Olympic fatigue as well as a coveted prize of great value: among the Greeks a plot of land cultivated with vines was worth six times a field of cereals! Milone of Crotone himself, winner of six Olympics, is said to have been a great admirer of the wine from our vineyards! We can well say that it was and is the wine of the champions that in ancient times has always enjoyed the reputation of being endowed with therapeutic and healthy virtues. In fact, more than one doctor guaranteed that Cirò is a “safe cordial for those who want to recover their strength after a long illness” and is also an “opulent and majestic tonic for human old age that wants to be crowned with” green “for years to come”. The Olympic tradition was remembered at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968 where all participating athletes had the opportunity to taste Cirò as the official wine.
Such was the importance of Cirò wine, that it even seems that “enoducts” were built with terracotta pipes that started from the hills up to the port where the wine was directly loaded, in order to shorten all transport operations.
THE OLDEST WINE IN THE WORLD
making wine is a question of love
The Lucà Winery is proud to offer strictly genuine and high quality wines to enthusiasts. The vinification of the grapes, coming from vineyards located in the heart of the typical area, is done using traditional methods, with the exclusion of any industrial process; the result is a product that clearly stands out for its characteristics, acquiring all the delicate bouquet of the ancient CIRÒ.
Only wine produced in exceptional vintages is selected, aged and destined for bottling. A long experience and the superior quality of the wines produced daily contribute to making national and foreign merchants known.
Cirò is the first Calabrian wine
to have obtained the Controlled Designation of Origin in 1969.
Cirò is the first Calabrian wine to have obtained the Controlled Designation of Origin in 1969. The Cirò Doc is reserved for the Rosso types in the declination of “classic”, “superior classic”, “superior classic reserve”, “superior” and “superior reserve, as well as Rosé and White. Cirò Rosso and Rosato wines must be obtained from at least 80% Gaglioppo grapes. The Bianco must be obtained from at least 80% white Greco grapes.
Cirò Rosso, with a ruby red color and an intense but pleasant and delicate aroma. The flavor is full-bodied, harmonious and tends to become more velvety as it ages. It can accompany game dishes, roasts, red meats.
Cirò Rosato, with a rosé color, with a delicate aroma and a dry and harmonious flavor, goes well with cod and white meats.
Cirò white, straw yellow in color, with a pleasant smell and a dry, delicate and lively flavor. Excellent as an aperitif; it is an excellent accompaniment to fish, raw or cooked.
Today Cirò wine is known and exported all over the world, obtaining various and important awards. The authoritative US magazine “Wine Spectator” has included the white Cirò in the “100 Top Values 2015”, which is the list of the best 100 wines in the world in terms of value for money, the only one among the 100 to represent Calabria.
