Franciacorta wineries
Iconic wineries in Franciacorta
The name Franciacorta has very ancient origins, in fact the term was coined as far back as 1277 in reference to the 'curtes francae' (the free courts exempt from duties or gabelle).
It is only since 1961, however, that we talk about what is now recognized as one of the most valuable Italian spumantes. It was in fact during that year that the creation of Guido Berlucchi came to light.
In Borgonato, around the fifties, Guido Berlucchi, from the aristocratic family of Lana de' Terzi, produced a white wine he called Pinot del Castello because the grapes were supplied by the vineyards of a small manor house owned by family.
However, the wine had little stability and decided to consult the winemaker Franco Ziliani, who had recently graduated from the Enological School of Alba. It was Ziliani who proposed to Berlucchi to create in Franciacorta a classic method that was based on the tradition French. The duo Ziliani- Berlucchi was joined by a third member: insurer Giorgio Lanciani, acquaintance and colleague of the second.
Guido Berlucchi & C. was born in 1955 and after six years of experimentation gave birth in 1961 the first three thousand bottles of Pinot di Franciacorta, an early version of the current Franciacorta on the market.
To date Berlucchi is one of the points of reference for the sector, their Franciacorta are the history of Italian bubbles.
Among their most iconic creations, currently on the market are the famous '61 Berlucchi and the sophisticated Imperial Cuvée. Newer creation is their Franciacorta Palazzo Lana also available in the Extreme version.
To date, more than 50 years after the original creation of Berlucchi and Ziliani, Franciacorta DOCG is produced by many renowned wineries including:
Ca' del bosco
The winery was founded in 1964 by Annamaria Clementi acquiring a small hill house in Erbusco. I vineyards will be planted personally by Antonio Gandossi in 1968.
To date the Ca' del Bosco Cuvée prestige is the Franciacorta part of the Sea of representatives of the estate, on the market of the variant Rosè. So it is up to us to know what generalist consumers are going to him with the name of the winery.
The highlight of the house, however, is the Franciacorta Annamaria Clementi also available in the Rosè variant.
Bellavista
The enterprising spirit of Vittorio Moretti is due to the birth of this winery. In 1976 the purchase of a few hectares of vineyard on Bellavista hill will kick off the extraordinary company reality today known worldwide.
The Alma is their best-known Franciacorta, also available not dosed.
Again, like the Cuvèe Prestige of Ca' del Bosco, the name "Alma" is to many unknown consumers and it is customary to define it generically: Bellavista Brut.
There are then many other renowned Franciacorta, from the eponymous Vittorio Moretti dedicated to the founder at the Edition Theatre at scale a particular tribute to the world of theater.
Barone Pizzini
Winery to date in the olympus of Franciacorta thanks to the creation of the first ever Franciacorta Biological, Golf 1927 by Baron Pizzini conceived in 2002, whose name recalls the golf facility of the same name founded by Edoardo Pizzini in 1927.
Among its best-known wines is also the animating other Franciacorta of the brand that represents the evolution of their biological breeding path.
La Montina
In 1970 the estate housed a nun's convent and lay in a serious state of abandonment, it was the Bozza brothers who brought it to the current glory, buying it and starting to produce Franciacorta.
Among their best known wines there is definitely the Brut available in many variants and the Quor 2910 La Montina.
Mosnel
In 1968, after the birth of doc Franciacorta, the company specialized in modern viticulture. The Brut Mosnel is one of their best-known Franciacorta, available in a variety of types.
Ferghettina
The reality founded by Roberto Gatti, is undoubtedly, to date, one of the most renowned and shining realities of Franciacorta. A winery that in only twenty years, founded in 1991, has managed to impose itself thanks to a line of sparkling wines in constant quality growth, always characterized by great taste structure.
The Milledì is definitely the most iconic Franciacorta of Ferghettina. Even their Heronero has carved out a space in the line of Franciacorta proposed.
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