We take all the best from Franciacorta. We want to give it back as well. Our sustainability path has reached a fundamental step this year: the publication of our first sustainability report. Year after year, harvest after harvest, neither hailstorms, nor freezes, nor droughts have checked our dream of creating a company with ever-heightened respect […]

The grapevine is a climbing bush, flourishing in nature in the sub-form of a vine. To obtain the light it needs, the wild grapevine supports itself by wrapping itself around trees until it reaches the top.

The grapevine spread throughout the world before man ever cultivated it, and over millions of years of evolution it developed surprising capabilities of adaptation.

Just a few hours ago, Berlucchi, Franciacorta’s pioneering sparkling-wine producer, kicked off the harvest of its first 520 hectares of grapes. 

Leaf-pulling is an important vineyard-management operation, in which certain leaves are removed manually from the vine

Cover-cropping is an ancient practice for fertilising the vineyard

Every spring witnesses the miracle of budbreak