The Antinori family's only Franciacorta estate at Calino pours Cuvee Royale, Brut Rose and the Contessa Maggi Riserva inside a Cazzago San Martino sandy-moraine cellar.
Address: Via Paolo VI, 62, 25046 Calino, Cazzago San Martino, Brescia, Italy, Franciacorta
Uberti's Villa Pedergnano cellar at Erbusco pours Cuvee Sublimis, Comari del Salem Saten and the Magnificentia Riserva named for the family's 18th-century estate.
Tasting: Cellar visit and vineyard walk at the Uberti family estate at Villa Pedergnano, with a flight of Cuvee Sublimis, Comari del Salem Saten and the Magnificentia long-aged Riserva.
Greek-cross 1850 cellars dug from rock at Monticelli Brusati, restored by Franco Ziliani in the 1970s, pouring Essence Brut, Essence Saten and the Magis Riserva on weekend visits.
Tasting: Walk through the 1850 Greek-cross tunnel cellars dug for Brescia merchant Luigi Rossetti (the cantinone the locals called el cantinu) and a flight of Essence Brut, Essence Saten and the Magis Riserva. Visits run Saturday and Sunday by reservation.
Ricci Curbastro's Villa Evelina at Capriolo combines a farm-winery tour with the Museo Agricolo e del Vino and a flight pouring the Saten, Extra Brut and late-disgorged Museum Release range.
Tasting: Guided visit through the Villa Evelina farm winery (Ricci Curbastro family since 1885, modernised 1967) combined with the Museo Agricolo e del Vino, plus a flight of the Extra Brut, Saten, Brut Rose and the late-disgorged Museum Release range.
Maurizio Zanella's flagship cellar at Erbusco, where the visit walks the contactless press line and the sculpture-lined Hall of the Wines before a flight of Cuvee Prestige and Annamaria Clementi.
Tasting: Guided cellar visit covering the Ca' del Bosco Method (grape washing, vertical contactless press), the underground Hall of the Wines and Arnaldo Pomodoro's sculpture park, followed by a flight of Cuvee Prestige, Vintage Collection Brut, Vintage Collection Saten and Annamaria Clementi.
Terra Moretti's Bellavista cellar above Erbusco pours Alma Cuvee Brut, Saten and the Vittorio Moretti Riserva across vineyard walks and seated flights for booked guests only.
Tasting: Cellar visit through the Bellavista winery with a vineyard walk on the moraine ridge above Erbusco, then a flight of Alma Cuvee Brut, Saten, Pas Opere and the Vittorio Moretti Riserva. The L'Albereta resort restaurants pour estate wines for paired lunches and dinners.
Berlucchi pours its '61 Nature, Cuvee Imperiale Brut and Palazzo Lana Riserva inside Palazzo Lana Berlucchi at Borgonato, the 16th-century palazzo where Italian traditional-method sparkling began in 1961.
Tasting: Walk through the 16th-century Palazzo Lana Berlucchi at Borgonato, the cellar where Franco Ziliani made the first Italian traditional-method sparkling in 1961. The tour covers the historic cellars and the 1961 vintage room, followed by a flight of '61 Nature, Cuvee Imperiale Brut and Palazzo Lana Riserva.
