Lombardia

Lombardia has 5 DOCG, 21 DOC and 15 IGT designations. Its seven wine areas include Oltrepò Pavese, south of the Po in the Northern Apennines; Franciacorta, between Brescia and Lake Iseo; and Valtellina, where 750 hectares of vineyards climb rocky slopes from roughly 300 to nearly 800 metres behind 2,500 kilometres of dry-stone walls.

In Valtellina, Nebbiolo is known as Chiavennasca. Rosso di Valtellina is the younger, fresher style; Valtellina Superiore is deep, austere and tannic, with finesse and delicacy; and Sforzato, also called Sfursat, is a dry red passito made from selected dried Nebbiolo grapes. Lugana, on the morainic plain south of Lake Garda, is based on Turbiana. Its whites combine freshness, mineral character and weight. Oltrepò's Metodo Classico tradition centres on blanc de noirs and rosé de noirs, while Buttafuoco is a powerful, ageworthy red based on Barbera and Croatina.

Producer profiles

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• Azienda Acricola FerghettinaFounded by Roberto and Andreina Gatti in 1991, Ferghettina brings together fruit from vineyards across Franciacorta.
• Azienda Agricola Massussi LuigiArtisan Franciacorta estate at 400 metres, farming 1.5 hectares since the early nineteenth century and producing vintage-dated sparkling wines with indigenous yeasts and zero dosage.
• Azienda Agricola Menegola WalterValtellina estate bottling Chiavennasca from granite terraces since 2006, with 150 years of family viticulture behind it.
• Azienda Agricola Nobili NicolaFamily estate in the Valtellina farming five terraced hectares of Chiavennasca between Poggiridenti and Sondrio, with wines aged three years in a 16th-century former Jesuit convent in Ponte in Valtellina.
• Bersi SerliniFranciacorta house in Provaglio d'Iseo, making metodo classico sparkling wines from organically farmed vineyards on the southern shore of Lake Iseo, in cellars first cut by medieval monks.
• Ca' dei FratiThird-generation family estate on the southern shore of Lake Garda, making Lugana DOC whites from Turbiana grown in clay soils cooled by Garda breezes.
• Ca' del BoscoFranciacorta producer in Erbusco, Lombardy; 253 certified organic hectares; known for the Vintage Collection Satèn and the Annamaria Clementi prestige cuvée; technically rigorous house with proprietary nitrogen disgorging and gravity-flow cellars.
• Cantina Franzosi di Franzosi Bruno & figli SASA Valtènesi family estate on the western shore of Lake Garda, producing indigenous red varieties including Marzemino, Groppello, Barbera, Sangiovese, and Rebo alongside white Lugana. Around 500,000 bottles and 200 quintals of olive oil come off the same moraine terroir each year.
• Casa Vinicola Fratelli BettiniFifth-generation cantina in San Giacomo di Teglio, farming terraced Valtellina granite for Nebbiolo Sassella and a dried-grape Sforzato from the Spina vineyard.
• CastelvederFamily Franciacorta producer at Monticelli Brusati, Lombardy. Three generations on the same hillside since 1975. Traditional-method sparkling wine from eight named parcels on clay and marl.
• Conti DuccoConti Ducco is a Passirano estate crafting Franciacorta from estate-grown Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, with roots in the current winery dating to 1967.
• Cordero San GiorgioYoung Oltrepò Pavese estate founded in 2019 by three siblings from a Piedmont wine family; half the vineyard is Pinot Nero, farmed organically, vinified parcel by parcel.