Can you visit Ricci Curbastro without booking?

Yes. The cellar and its shop are open every day: Monday to Friday 9.00 to 12.00 and 14.00 to 18.00, Saturday and Sunday 9.00 to 12.30 and 14.30 to 18.00. The guided visits with a tasting run every day but only by reservation, and the Museum Release visit needs a group of at least four.

How do I book a tasting at Ricci Curbastro?

Book online on the estate's own booking site, visit.riccicurbastro.it, or through the booking partners listed on this page. The four programmes each last an hour and a half and start at EUR 10 a person for the museum, the cellar and a glass of Franciacorta Brut. For groups and special requests write to info@riccicurbastro.it or call +39 030 736094.

What is the Ricci Curbastro wine museum?

The Museo Agricolo e del Vino is a museum of old farming and winemaking tools inside the estate's farm buildings at Capriolo. Gualberto Ricci Curbastro opened its first room in 1986, and it now holds thousands of objects, a family archive going back six centuries and a library of more than 5,000 books. Every guided visit includes it.

What does Museum Release mean on a Ricci Curbastro label?

Museum Release, or MR, is the estate's name for Franciacorta disgorged after ten to twelve years on the lees, far longer than its normal wines. The estate uses it for Brut, Extra Brut and Satèn lots. The Museum Release visit pours two of them alongside an older vintage of the Dosaggio Zero Gualberto; the wines change with availability.

Can you stay at Ricci Curbastro?

Yes. The estate's agriturismo has eight self-catering flats in the Cascina San Lorenzo, opposite the winery and close to the centre of Capriolo. Each has a kitchen, and a portable air conditioner is available in some flats. The overnight rate includes the museum and cellar visit with a tasting. Book by email at agrit@riccicurbastro.it or by phone on +39 030 736094. Lake Iseo is five kilometres away, Bergamo 24 km and Milan 75 km.

Azienda Agricola Ricci Curbastro

Ricci Curbastro is a family wine estate at Capriolo, on the western edge of Franciacorta and five kilometres from Lake Iseo. Riccardo Ricci Curbastro runs it with his sons Gualberto and Filippo, the eighteenth generation of a farming family. Its vines go into Franciacorta DOCG sparkling wines, including Museum Release bottles aged ten years or more before sale. The old farm buildings hold a museum of farming and wine tools. The cellar is open every day, with four guided visits to book and eight holiday flats opposite the winery.

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Vine rows and the farm buildings of Ricci Curbastro at Capriolo, with the village and hills behind

About Azienda Agricola Ricci Curbastro

The Ricci Curbastro family has farmed for eighteen generations. Their records begin with Pietro Ricci Curbastro, born in Romagna in 1380 after the family was exiled from Florence. The family still runs an estate there, Rontana at Brisighella, and this one at Capriolo in Franciacorta. A company label from 1885 shows wine being made in the Colzano vineyard at Capriolo. Riccardo and Evelina Ricci Curbastro built the present cellar in 1946, and it is still the heart of today's cellar.

Gualberto Ricci Curbastro helped give Franciacorta its name as a wine. In 1967 he and ten other growers set up the Franciacorta DOC, eleven producers in all. His son Riccardo led the producers' consortium from 1993 to 1999, the years in which Franciacorta became a DOCG. Today Riccardo runs the estate with his sons Gualberto and Filippo. Riccardo and Filippo also make the wines with Annalisa Massetti and Andrea Rudelli.

The estate covers 34 hectares, 32 of them under vine, about 45 football pitches. The sparkling wines are Franciacorta DOCG made by metodo classico: Brut, Extra Brut, Satèn, Rosé, Demi Sec and the Gualberto, made with no added sugar. Each spends at least 30 months on the lees before it goes on sale. A few lots wait ten to twelve years and are sold as Museum Release. There are still wines too, under Curtefranca DOC and Sebino IGT. Two of them, the Curtefranca Rosso and the Sebino Pinot Bianco, are sold as organic wines.

The cellar is dug into the park on three levels, so grapes and wine move by gravity instead of pumps. The deepest floor is 15 metres down and stays at 15°C all year without cooling, holding hundreds of thousands of bottles. Three solar plants have made the estate self-sufficient in electricity since 2010. It was one of the first nine Italian wineries, and the first in Lombardy, to be certified sustainable under the Equalitas standard. It has published a sustainability report every year since 2017. In 2023 it became a benefit company, the first in Franciacorta, with a duty to society and the environment written into its statutes beside profit.

Visitors are welcome every day. The farm buildings house the Agricultural and Wine Museum, opened by Gualberto in 1986. It holds thousands of tools and objects from farm life of the past, a family archive going back six centuries and a library of more than 5,000 books. Four guided visits combine the museum, the cellar and a tasting of one to three Franciacorta wines. Eight holiday flats sit in the restored Cascina San Lorenzo opposite the winery, and a night there includes the museum and cellar visit with a tasting.

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Via Adro, 37, 25031 Capriolo, Brescia (Lombardia)

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The Classic

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Guided tour of the Ricci Curbastro Agricultural and Wine Museum, followed by a visit to the winery with an explanation of the Franciacorta DOCG and Curtefranca DOC production processes. Tasting of a glass of Franciacorta Brut DOCG with breadsticks.

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The Bis

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Guided tour of the Ricci Curbastro Agricultural Museum and the cellars of the Ricci Curbastro Farm, illustrating the production processes of Franciacorta DOCG and Curtefranca DOC wines. Tasting of a glass of Franciacorta Brut DOCG and vintage Franciacorta Satèn Brut DOCG, accompanied by breadsticks.

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Guided tour of the Ricci Curbastro Agricultural Museum and the cellars of the Ricci Curbastro Farm, illustrating the production processes of Franciacorta DOCG and Curtefranca DOC. Tasting of a glass of Franciacorta Brut DOCG, a vintage Franciacorta Satèn Brut DOCG, and a vintage Franciacorta Extra Brut DOCG, accompanied by breadsticks.

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Guided tour and Classic Tasting at Ricci Curbastro winery

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Visit the Ricci Curbastro winery and Agricultural Museum where history and tradition blend with innovation and sustainability.

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Guided tour and Double Tasting at Ricci Curbastro winery

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Museum Release Wine Tasting & Museum Visit at Ricci Curbastro in Franciacorta

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Explore four thousand years of farming history at the museum before tasting three rare, long-aged Franciacorta Museum Release vintages.

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Stay at the estate's agriturismo

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Eight self-catering flats in the restored Cascina San Lorenzo, opposite the winery and close to the centre of Capriolo. Each has a kitchen, and a portable air conditioner is available in some flats. Linen, water, power, heating and the final clean are included, and the overnight rate includes the museum and cellar visit with a tasting. Lake Iseo is five kilometres away.

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Common questions

Yes. The cellar and its shop are open every day: Monday to Friday 9.00 to 12.00 and 14.00 to 18.00, Saturday and Sunday 9.00 to 12.30 and 14.30 to 18.00. The guided visits with a tasting run every day but only by reservation, and the Museum Release visit needs a group of at least four.
Book online on the estate's own booking site, visit.riccicurbastro.it, or through the booking partners listed on this page. The four programmes each last an hour and a half and start at EUR 10 a person for the museum, the cellar and a glass of Franciacorta Brut. For groups and special requests write to [email protected] or call +39 030 736094.
The Museo Agricolo e del Vino is a museum of old farming and winemaking tools inside the estate's farm buildings at Capriolo. Gualberto Ricci Curbastro opened its first room in 1986, and it now holds thousands of objects, a family archive going back six centuries and a library of more than 5,000 books. Every guided visit includes it.
Museum Release, or MR, is the estate's name for Franciacorta disgorged after ten to twelve years on the lees, far longer than its normal wines. The estate uses it for Brut, Extra Brut and Satèn lots. The Museum Release visit pours two of them alongside an older vintage of the Dosaggio Zero Gualberto; the wines change with availability.
Yes. The estate's agriturismo has eight self-catering flats in the Cascina San Lorenzo, opposite the winery and close to the centre of Capriolo. Each has a kitchen, and a portable air conditioner is available in some flats. The overnight rate includes the museum and cellar visit with a tasting. Book by email at [email protected] or by phone on +39 030 736094. Lake Iseo is five kilometres away, Bergamo 24 km and Milan 75 km.
Ricci Curbastro is certified sustainable under the Equalitas standard, one of the first nine Italian wineries and the first in Lombardy. It has published a sustainability report every year since 2017. The estate says it has farmed organically since 2015, and its Curtefranca Rosso and Sebino Pinot Bianco are sold as organic wines.

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7 bookable experiences at Azienda Agricola Ricci Curbastro

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Guided tour and Classic Tasting at Ricci Curbastro winery

Guided tour and Double Tasting at Ricci Curbastro winery

Guided tour and Triple Tasting at Ricci Curbastro winery

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Stay at the estate's agriturismo

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