Est. 1902 
4 wines 
Tastings
Tours
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Black & White Tour
Guided walk through the Ferrari cellars in Trento, finishing with a tasting of Ferrari Perlé Bianco and Ferrari Perlé Nero Trentodoc.
Book this experienceCantine Ferrari
Trentino-South Tyrol, ItalyCantine Ferrari has produced Trentodoc Metodo Classico sparkling wine in the mountains of Trentino since 1902, the year Giulio Ferrari planted Chardonnay on the Trento hillsides because he believed Italy could match the best of Champagne. The winery sits at Via Ponte di Ravina, in Trento, and its cellars and tasting rooms are open to visitors who want to walk through more than a century of bottles ageing on the lees. Today it is Italy's leading producer of Metodo Classico, run by the third generation of the Lunelli family.
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Trentino-South Tyrol
- Est. 1902
- 4 wines
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Booking required
Wines from Cantine Ferrari
Experiences at Cantine Ferrari
Bookable experiences, curated by our editors. External booking where marked.
Perlé Line Tour
Cellar visit followed by a tasting of Ferrari Perlé, Perlé Rosé and Perlé Zero Trentodoc, focused on the house's vintage Metodo Classico range.
Book this experienceGreat Vintages Tour
Three-hour visit centred on Ferrari's long-aged cuvées, with a tasting of Perlé Nero, Riserva Lunelli, Giulio Ferrari Riserva del Fondatore and Giulio Ferrari Rosé.
Book this experienceBlack & White Tour
Guided walk through the Ferrari cellars in Trento, finishing with a tasting of Ferrari Perlé Bianco and Ferrari Perlé Nero Trentodoc.
Book this experienceAbout Cantine Ferrari
Giulio Ferrari founded the house in 1902 with a clear ambition: to make a wine in Trentino that could stand alongside the finest sparkling wines of Champagne. He was the first to plant Chardonnay in any serious quantity in Italy and the first to read the high-altitude vineyards above Trento as a Metodo Classico vocation, a reading that turned out to be correct.
In 1952, with no children to inherit the estate, Giulio Ferrari chose Bruno Lunelli, a Trento wine-shop owner, as his successor. Bruno's sons Franco, Gino and Mauro took the company through the 1970s into the 2000s and turned Ferrari into the celebratory wine of Italian public life, with Ferrari Perlé, Ferrari Rosé and the vintage flagship Giulio Ferrari Riserva del Fondatore all created in this period. Today Marcello, Matteo, Camilla and Alessandro Lunelli, the third generation, run the company together.
Everything the house bottles is Trentodoc, the Trento DOC for Metodo Classico from grapes grown exclusively in Trentino. Chardonnay is the spine of the range, supported by Pinot Noir, and the fruit comes from mountainside vineyards farmed at altitude, where the wide swing between warm days and cool nights gives the base wines their tension. More than 500 grower families supply the winery under Il Vigneto Ferrari, a sustainability protocol developed with the Edmund Mach Foundation and certified by CSQA.
The Lunelli family completed the conversion of all Ferrari Trento vineyards to organic farming in 2017, after a 20-year transition that replaced herbicides and chemical fertilisers with green manure, copper and sulphur. Ferrari Trento is part of the United Nations Global Compact through Gruppo Lunelli, publishes an annual sustainability report, and holds Biodiversity Friend certification from the Worldwide Biodiversity Association.
The public face of the estate sits around two buildings: the working winery on Via Ponte di Ravina, where guided tours follow the riddling racks and the long-ageing cellars, and Villa Margon, a sixteenth-century villa above Trento that the family uses for hospitality. Locanda Margon, the Lunelli family restaurant near the villa, pairs Ferrari sparkling wines with mountain Italian cooking.
Visiting Cantine Ferrari
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Tastings
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Tours
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Accommodation
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Booking
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Plan your visit
Via Ponte di Ravina, 15, 38123 Trento, Trento (Trentino Alto Adige)
Plate I · TRENTINO-SOUTH TYROL
Cantine Ferrari on the Trentino-South Tyrol wine atlas
What Cantine Ferrari makes
Cantine Ferrari's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Chardonnay.
Key grapes
Common questions
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Cantine Ferrari is in Trento, in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of north-east Italy. The working winery and cellar visit are at Via Ponte di Ravina 15, with hospitality activity centred on Villa Margon, a sixteenth-century villa on the hillside above the city.
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