Founded in 1977 Bellavista now owns some 479 acres of vines (almost a tenth of Franciacorta’s vineyard land) and produces about 1.2 million bottles of bubbly a year. This vivacious Millesimato offers apple and citrus flavors, with traces of appetite whetting bitter almond on the finish. Thirty percent of the wine was fermented in oak, and it was hand-riddled.
Bellavista, Franciacorta (Lombardy, Italy) 2012
By Marguerite Thomas