Consortium-led open-cellar weekend across 100+ Franciacorta wineries, with masterclasses, harvest-season cellar walks, producer dinners and a Strada del Franciacorta companion app for booking visits.
Address: Via G. Verdi, 53, 25030 Erbusco, Brescia, Italy, Franciacorta
Cellar visit covering the Ca' del Bosco Method (grape washing, vertical contactless press), the Hall of the Wines and the Arnaldo Pomodoro sculpture park, with a flight of Cuvee Prestige, Vintage Collection and Annamaria Clementi.
Visit the 16th-century Barboglio family home at Camignone (founded 1836) with a walk past the Erbamat trial plot (the heritage grape Mosnel championed into the 2017 disciplinare) and a flight of Pas Dose, Brut, EBB Riserva and Parose Saten.
Distillerie Franciacorta's master-distiller-led tour through the restored medieval Borgo Antico San Vitale, with historic stills, the 1901 Gozio-family archive and a tasting of Grappa di Chardonnay, Grappa di Pinot Nero and Ampolle 1901 reserves.
Cellar visit covering the Ca' del Bosco Method (grape washing, vertical contactless press), the Hall of the Wines and the Arnaldo Pomodoro sculpture park, with a flight of Cuvee Prestige, Vintage Collection and Annamaria Clementi.
Walk through Palazzo Lana Berlucchi, the 16th-century palazzo where Franco Ziliani made the first Italian traditional-method sparkling in 1961, with a 1600s cellar visit and a flight of '61 Nature, Cuvee Imperiale Brut and Palazzo Lana Riserva.
Visit Franciacorta's organic anchor (certified organic since 1997) at the Provaglio d'Iseo gravity-flow cellar, with a vineyard walk past Erbamat trial plots and a flight of Animante, Naturae Nature, Edizione and Bagnadore Riserva.
Walk Brescia merchant Luigi Rossetti's 1850 Greek-cross tunnel cellars at Monticelli Brusati (the cantinone the locals called el cantinu) and taste Essence Brut, Essence Saten and the Magis Riserva in the restored vaulted tasting room.
