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Berlucchi and the Origins of Franciacorta Sparkling Wine

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Berlucchi is the producer most directly responsible for establishing Franciacorta as a serious sparkling wine zone. When Franco Ziliani began working at Guido Berlucchi’s estate in Borgonato in the mid-1950s, Franciacorta produced only unremarkable red wines. The sparkling wine the two men made together — released in 1961 as the first commercially produced traditional-method wine […]

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Franciacorta Wine and Lake Iseo: A Guide to the Lombard Sparkling Wine Zone

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Franciacorta is a moraine landscape south-east of Lake Iseo, between Brescia and Bergamo, that produces Italy’s finest metodo classico sparkling wine. The name derives from the Latin Francae Curtae — courts of land granted tax-free to monks in the medieval period, an early advantage that may explain the zone’s long viticultural tradition. The climate, moderated

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