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.
Address: Via Albano Zanella, 13, 25030 Erbusco, Brescia, Italy, Franciacorta
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.
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.
Franciacorta's organic anchor pours Animante, Naturae Nature and Bagnadore Riserva inside its gravity-flow Provaglio d'Iseo cellar, the first Franciacorta winery certified organic in 1997.
Tasting: Visit to the Provaglio d'Iseo organic cellar (the first Franciacorta producer certified organic, in 1997), tour of the gravity-flow winery and a flight of Animante, Naturae Nature, Edizione and a Bagnadore Riserva pour on the longer program.
Barboglio family cellar at Camignone since 1836, pouring Pas Dose, Brut, EBB Riserva and Parose Saten alongside an Erbamat trial-plot vineyard walk in the Cluniac wood folds of Passirano.
Tasting: Cellar visit in the 16th-century Barboglio family home at Camignone (founded 1836), with a vineyard walk past the Erbamat trial plot and a flight of Pas Dose, Brut, EBB Riserva and the Parose Saten.
Roberto Gatti's Adro cellar pours the four-sided Milledi Riserva and the Saten Brut across 200 hectares of organic Franciacorta plantings split between 11 communes.
Tasting: Visit the Adro cellar of Roberto Gatti's estate, with a tour across the 200 hectares Ferghettina farms organic across 11 Franciacorta municipalities and a flight including the four-sided Milledi single-vineyard Riserva.
Terra Moretti's second Franciacorta house at Adro, converted from a 1980s brickyard, pours Soul Saten, Zero Pas Dose and Brut Rose against the original kiln walls.
Tasting: Tour of the converted Adro brickyard that became Terra Moretti's second Franciacorta house, with a flight of Soul Brut Saten, Zero Pas Dose and Brut Rose paired with light Brescian snacks in the Bottega tasting room.
