Lombardy · Wine routes

Lombardy's wine roads

3 drives, each one a different Lombardy. Pick by the wine you want at the end of the day.

Every road here has a drivable guide behind it: real stops, the time between each one, the estates you can taste at, and a sheet you can print. The region's other signed strade del vino join this page as their guides are written.

The linkable asset

All the roads, one map

Hover a road on the map, or pick a row beside it, to see what it is. Tap a road on the map to see what it is.

Every road on this map has a drivable guide behind it: stops, legs, estates and a print sheet.

The decision table

The drives, compared

One row per road. If you only read one cell, read the driving character.

Swipe the table sideways for what you taste, the driving character and tasting prices.

Route	Days	Km	Stops	What you taste	Driving character	Guided	Tastings
Strada del Franciacorta Erbusco to Iseo	1	26	6	FranciacortaDOCG	Flat, quick and civilised: five-minute hops along hedged lanes between estate gates, the only gradients the moraine bumps the vines sit on.	1	from €25
Strada del Vino della Valtellina Ardenno to Tirano	2	55	8	Valtellina Rosso/Rosso di ValtellinaDOC Valtellina SuperioreDOCG Sforzato di Valtellina/Sfursat di ValtellinaDOCG	Slow and sideways: a narrow road that hugs the foot of the terraces, with tractors, stone walls at your mirror and a view of the valley floor the whole way.	1	from €20
Strada dei Vini del Garda Sirmione to Pasini San Giovanni	1	30	4	LuganaDOC ValtenesiDOC	Season decides everything: lakeshore boulevards that crawl behind campervans in July drive empty in May, while the Valtenesi lanes above the shore stay quiet all year.	11	by request

Tastings show the lowest listed estate price on each road. Guided tours match to routes automatically as partners list them.

Route by route

Pick your road

Visit prices are set by the winery and availability should be checked before travelling. Bookings open on the estate page or the provider's site.

1 day

Strada del Franciacorta

The signposted loop through the Franciacorta DOCG amphitheatre between Brescia and Lake Iseo.

Erbusco
Bellavista
Adro
Guido Berlucchi
Il Mosnel
Iseo

Estates on this route

Est. 1977

Lombardy · Erbusco

Azienda Agricola Bellavista

Founded by Vittorio Moretti in 1977 on the Bellavista hill above Lake Iseo, this Erbusco estate is one of Franciacorta's reference points. Hand-picked chardonnay and pinot nero feed Alma Assemblage, Satèn, Teatro alla Scala and the long-aged Vittorio Moretti Riserva. Curtefranca DOC Bianco covers the still side.

14wines From £19.24

Lombardy · Borgonato

Guido Berlucchi

The cellar that produced Italy's first metodo classico in 1961, founded by Guido Berlucchi and Franco Ziliani at Palazzo Lana in Borgonato. The Ziliani siblings now lead the largest single estate in Franciacorta. Its 85 hectares of certified organic vines support a range that climbs from Cuvee Imperiale to the cellar-aged Palazzo Lana Riserva.

17wines From £21.50

Est. 1836

Lombardy · Camignone di Passirano

Azienda Agricola Il Mosnel

Il Mosnel is a five-generation Franciacorta estate in Camignone di Passirano, at the heart of the zone. Organic vineyards ring the old borgo, and the sparkling range climbs from the entry Brut to the single-year Satèn, EBB and Parosé and a long-aged Riserva. The Barboglio family has farmed the property since 1836.

4wines From £28.80

Est. 1870

Lombardy · Provaglio d'Iseo

Azienda Agricola Barone Pizzini

One of Franciacorta's oldest estates, founded 1870 near Lake Iseo, and the first to make certified organic Franciacorta. Around 300,000 bottles a year of Animante, Satèn, Rosé and the Bagnadore Riserva, all vegan-certified, with tours and tastings bookable online from 28 euros.

8wines From £23.50

Full route guide

2 days

Strada del Vino della Valtellina

The signed 67 km wine road from Ardenno to Tirano, along the sunny north wall of the valley. It passes the five Nebbiolo slopes: Maroggia, Sassella, Grumello, Inferno and Valgella.

Ardenno
Sondrio
Poggiridenti
Nino Negri
Sandro Fay
Teglio
Bianzone
Tirano

Estates on this route

Est. 1897

Lombardy · Chiuro

Nino Negri

Founded in 1897 in Chiuro, Nino Negri farms Nebbiolo across three of the five Valtellina Superiore zones, from cellars dug beneath the fifteenth-century Palazzo Quadrio. Fruit from Sassella and Maroggia widens the range. The Sfursat 5 Stelle is the house benchmark for Sforzato di Valtellina DOCG.

12wines From £18

Est. 1973

Lombardy · San Giacomo di Teglio

Sandro Fay

A family estate in San Giacomo di Teglio, the home municipality of Valgella. Sandro Fay and his children Marco and Elena bottle Chiavennasca parcel by parcel from terraced slopes. The wines include the Valgella Carterìa Riserva and the Sforzato Ronco del Picchio.

4wines From £20

Full route guide

Half day

Strada dei Vini del Garda

The Lake Garda southern shore route, from Sirmione's Lugana flats to the Valtenesi headland and its Chiaretto cellars.

Sirmione
Ca' dei Frati
Costaripa
Pasini San Giovanni

Estates on this route

Lombardy · Lugana di Sirmione

Azienda Agricola Ca’ dei Frati

Founded in 1939 by Felice Dal Cero on a Lugana site documented since 1782, Ca' dei Frati helped create the Lugana DOC in 1969. The family farms Turbiana for I Frati and the Brolettino. A wider Garda range runs from Pratto and Rosa dei Frati to Ronchedone and a small Pietro Dal Cero Amarone.

11wines From £10.10

Est. 1967

Lombardy · Desenzano del Garda

Cà Maiol

Cà Maiol started in 1967 around a farmhouse dated 1710, on the flat Lugana land south of Lake Garda. Its founder helped set up the body that protects the Lugana name. Turbiana fills most of the vines, with Groppello, Marzemino and Barbera on the Valtènesi side to the west. The Marzotto family's wine group bought the estate in 2017. Four guided tastings can be booked, and the wine shop opens every day.

5wines From £15

Full route guide

Also in Lombardy, not yet published here: Strada del Vino dell'Oltrepò Pavese. A road joins this page when its stops, drive times and guidance meet the same bar as the ones above.

Before you ask

Lombardy's roads, answered

Start with the time you have. Half a day: the Garda road, 30 km and four stops on the lake's west shore. One day: Franciacorta, 26 km of flat lanes between six estate gates. Two days: Valtellina, 67 km of terraces from Ardenno to Tirano, the only one that needs a night on the road.

Franciacorta and Garda, yes. Erbusco to Desenzano is 50 km and about 40 minutes on the A4, so one long day or a relaxed weekend covers both. Valtellina is a separate trip: Sondrio is two and a half hours from Brescia and more than two from Milan, and the road itself takes two days.

Late September and October, if you can choose. Valtellina is picking on the terraces, and Franciacorta's September festival weekend opens more than sixty cellars at once. For Garda, May, June and September give you warm water, moving roads and cellars with time for you. July and August double every drive time on the lake shore.

Valtellina, in part. The railway up the valley from Milan stops at Ardenno, Sondrio and Tirano, the start, the middle and the end of the road, and the Bernina train runs all year. Franciacorta and Garda are car roads: the estates sit along lanes between the towns, and each stop is a short drive from the last.

Franciacorta is Italy's bottle-fermented sparkling wine, tasted in the cellars that make it. Valtellina is Nebbiolo, called Chiavennasca on the terraces, and Sforzato, the red made from grapes dried until December. Garda is the pale Chiaretto rose of the Valtenesi shore and Lugana white from the flat land at the lake's foot.

Brescia sits between two of the roads: Erbusco is 25 minutes to the west, Desenzano half an hour to the east. For Valtellina, sleep in Sondrio or Tirano, the halfway point or the end, and drive the road the way the signs run, from Ardenno up the valley.

Yes. 1 more road is signed in Lombardy, and each joins this page when its guide meets the same bar as the ones above: real stops, real drive times between them, live estates and a printable plan. We would rather list 3 drivable roads than a page of stubs.

Beyond the roads

Lombardy, the bigger picture

Lombardy

From Franciacorta classic-method bubbles to Valtellina mountain Nebbiolo and Lugana lake-cool whites, Lombardy spans 5 DOCGs across roughly 25,000 hectares of vineyards.

529 wines · 43 denominations

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