The Colle di San Colombano are located due south of Lodi and the San Colombano d.o.c. wine is the only DOC wine produced in the province of Milano.

The hills are surrounded, rather incongruously, on all sides by the lowlands of the River Po plain. Yet, the minerals absorbed from millennia of floods have left a terrain ideal for producing good wine.

Tradition has it that an Irish missionary came to Italy in the 6th century. He was so successful with the Barbarians that not only did he convert them to Christianity but they also enthusiastically took up the cultivation of vines.

The logo of the Consorzio is, in fact, a religious man holding a bunch of red grapes. The wine was awarded the DOC mark in 1984.

The grapes destined for production of the San Colombano must be cultivated exclusively in the Comune of Miradolo Terme and Monteleone in the province of Pavia, Graffignana and Sant'Angelo in the province of Lodi and San Colombano al Lambro in the province of Milano.

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