Bellavista sits on the morainic hill that gave it its name, in Erbusco at the heart of the Franciacorta amphitheatre. Founded in 1977 by Vittorio Moretti, the estate now farms 209 hectares around Lake Iseo and produces roughly 1.7 million bottles a year of Franciacorta Metodo Classico, Curtefranca DOC and the Riserva Vittorio Moretti flagship.
Lombardy
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Guided walk through the underground cellar and riddling racks, followed by a seated tasting of Bellavista's Franciacorta Metodo Classico range in the estate wine shop. Bookings are handled by the dedicated visit office.
Book this experienceGuided walk through the underground cellar and riddling racks, followed by a seated tasting of Bellavista's Franciacorta Metodo Classico range in the estate wine shop. Bookings are handled by the dedicated visit office.
Book this experienceThe Moretti family has been documented around Erbusco since the fifteenth century, but the wine project began in 1977, when Vittorio Moretti decided to pair a builder's discipline with a winegrower's instinct. The first year produced only still wines, the second a handful of Metodo Classico bottles for friends, and from the third the cellar moved decisively into the rigour of bottle-fermented sparkling wine that would shape modern Franciacorta.
Bellavista's vineyards now spread across 209 hectares, parcelled into more than one hundred plots on the south-facing slopes of the morainic amphitheatre. Soils are stony and silty with very little clay, a legacy of the glaciers that retreated up Val Camonica, and the Lake Iseo air keeps ripening slow and aromatic. Picking is done by hand into small crates, with whole-bunch pressing on traditional vertical presses and a portion of the base wines fermented and aged in small oak barrels before assembly.
The house style is consistent across the range: Alma Assemblage Brut as the multi-vintage signature, Satèn for the chardonnay-led softer cuvée, Teatro alla Scala in partnership with the Milan opera house, and the vintage-dated Vittorio Moretti Riserva sitting on the lees for around eight years before release. A small Curtefranca DOC Bianco anchors the still-wine side, made from the same chardonnay parcels that feed the sparkling wines.
Day-to-day production is led by Francesca Moretti, Vittorio's daughter, with Richard Geoffroy, the former chef de cave of Dom Perignon, advising on cuvee design and reserve-wine policy. The estate is certified under the Equalitas standard, which audits environmental, social and economic sustainability across vineyard and cellar work, and is part of the wider Terra Moretti group that also runs the L'Albereta resort next door.
For visitors, Bellavista is set up as a working winery rather than a theme park. Tours and tastings run on weekdays and weekends through a dedicated visit office ([email protected]), and most arrivals start in the wine shop before walking down into the cellar where the riddling racks and reserve-wine library are kept. The morainic hillside outside, with the swing sculpture Vertigine by Velasco Vitali, is part of the experience even before the first glass.
Editorially verified by ItalianWines.co.uk.
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Azienda Agricola Bellavista's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Chardonnay.
Est. 1977 
13 wines 
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