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Azienda Agricola Fratelli Berlucchi
A vintage Franciacorta from Chardonnay grown on the Berlucchi family's own land at Borgonato. Satèn means a softer, gentler bubble. Three years on its yeasts bring apple, lemon and warm brioche. Built for the table, not just the aperitif.
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Fratelli Berlucchi picks this Chardonnay by hand at Borgonato, then rests it at least 30 months on its yeasts. The notes below join the estate's own sheet to what 109 Vivino reviewers taste in the glass.
Lemon and green apple lead, with the ripe peach the estate's own sheet calls out. Underneath sits warm bread and a little vanilla, built by at least 30 months on the yeasts. Of 109 Vivino reviewers, 26 mention orchard fruit and 22 mention citrus, which matches what the glass gives.
Lemon
Acacia
Apple
Peach
Wet stones
Hazelnuts
Brioche
VanillaThe bubble is fine and soft, because Satèn is bottled at around five bars rather than six. Acidity is bright and the finish is dry, at 6.5 grams of sugar per litre. Part of the wine finished fermenting in 500-litre French oak, and that shows as a light buttery weight rather than oak flavour. Fruit stays in the apple and lemon range, with a nutty edge from the long rest.
Dry, clean and quite long, with a chalky, savoury pull. Vivino reviewers reach for words like minerals and graphite, and that stony edge fits the gravelly glacial soil at 250 metres above the lake.
Drinkers rate the 2021 at 4.1 on Vivino across 80 ratings, and the wine as a whole at 4.0 across nearly 2,000. The next vintage, the 2022, took Best in Show at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2026, the first Franciacorta ever to manage it. The 2021 is the everyday end of that same run. Drink it over the next few years, and put it with food.
The 2021 is listed at £33.63, and has been on offer at £30.60. Most vintage Franciacorta costs nearer £39, so this sits at the cheaper end.
Six scores for a £33 vintage Franciacorta made only from Chardonnay and aged three years on its yeasts before release.
Bright acidity and a gentle five-bar bubble cut fried food and creamy risotto, and Decanter's Charles Curtis MW rates the softer Satèn style as the one built for the table.
At about £31 on offer it undercuts most vintage Franciacorta, which usually starts nearer £39, and vino.com tags it a Best Buy.
A DOCG vintage sparkling wine from the estate whose 2022 Satèn took Decanter's Best in Show, so the bottle carries a story worth telling at the table.
Easy to like, with apple, lemon and warm bread, but Satèn is an unfamiliar word and £33 is a step up from Prosecco.
A vintage Franciacorta with at least 30 months on its yeasts will hold to about 2031, though it is not built for a decade in the dark like a Riserva.
At £33 this is a wine for a good Friday rather than a Tuesday, and it is ready to drink rather than waiting.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Franciacorta denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
The Franciacorta growers' association rates 2021 a small crop. A frost on 6 to 8 April and a hailstorm on 25 July both cut the yield. The grapes stayed healthy, and the base wines came in fresh and elegant.
A small crop after a frost on 6 to 8 April and a hailstorm on 25 July. Picking started on 14 August and ran long, and the growers' association reported healthy grapes and base wines with real freshness.
A small crop after a frost on 6 to 8 April and a hailstorm on 25 July. Picking started on 14 August and ran long, and the growers' association reported healthy grapes and base wines with real freshness.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Freccianera farms 70 hectares of its own vines, roughly 100 football pitches, all within two kilometres of the cellar at Borgonato. The oldest plots are 52 years old. That land, and three years of waiting, is most of what you pay for.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Franciacorta is in the DOCG tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Franciacorta falls within Lombardy, covering Brescia: 19 communes in the moraine amphitheatre south of Lake Iseo, Paratico to Gussago.
Wine route
1 day · 6 stops
Open the driveMade at Azienda Agricola Fratelli Berlucchi, Borgonato di Cortefranca.
Wine route in the zone: Strada del Franciacorta.
Freccianera holds the Satèn at least 30 months on its yeasts, and vino.com lists 40 for the 2021. Three years of stock sits in the cellar before any money comes back.
The 2021 comes from a selection of the estate's best Chardonnay plots, cropped at 9 tonnes a hectare where Franciacorta allows 10. Fewer grapes per row means fewer bottles to carry the cost.
Every bunch for this wine is cut by hand at Borgonato, Torbiato di Adro and Provaglio d'Iseo, then carried in small crates. A machine harvest would cost a fraction of that.
The estate moves part of each vintage into 500-litre French oak to finish fermenting, then stirs it on its own yeast sediment. Barrels are bought, filled and replaced. Steel tanks are not.
At the HMRC rate that applies from 1 February 2026, £30.62 per litre of pure alcohol, a 75cl bottle at 12.5% carries £2.87 of duty. Add 20% VAT and about £8.48 of the £33.63 is tax.
All 70 hectares are Fratelli Berlucchi's own, within two kilometres of the cellar, and the wine is aged and bottled on the same property. No grape grower or outside bottler takes a cut of the £33.63.
Satèn is bottled at about five bars instead of six, so the fizz is gentler and the wine sits more easily beside food. Decanter's Charles Curtis MW makes the same point: this style earns its place at the table.
Hot fat coats the tongue and dulls flavour. The sharp acidity here scrubs it away, and the fine bubble scrubs again. Sciatt, the fried cheese fritters made an hour north in Valtellina, are the local answer, and the same logic carries to tempura and to good fish and chips.
Try with: Sciatt valtellinesi · Gnocco fritto · Arancini · Prawn Tempura · Fish and Chips · More pairings →
Salt makes a wine taste rounder and fruitier. This one has the acidity to take that shift without going flabby, and it is dry enough at 6.5 grams of sugar per litre to stay crisp beside brine. Oysters and whipped salt cod are the clearest test.
Try with: Oysters · Baccala Mantecato · Scottish Smoked Salmon · Impepata di cozze · Polenta e schie · More pairings →
Rice cooked with butter and stock is heavy and soft, and it needs a wine with weight of its own. Thirty months on the yeasts give this Satèn a bready body that sits level with a Risotto alla Milanese, while the gentle bubble stops the plate feeling rich.
Try with: Risotto alla Milanese · Porcini mushroom risotto · Pumpkin risotto · Fonduta · More pairings →
Sushi and sashimi are quiet flavours, and a hard, aggressive fizz walks over them. Satèn is bottled at five bars rather than six, so its bubble is softer and its acidity does the work instead. Lemon and green apple sit exactly where raw fish wants them.
Try with: Nigiri Sushi · Sashimi · Tempura · More pairings →
Long ageing on the yeasts leaves bread, hazelnut and butter notes in the glass. Those notes shake hands with baked and creamy dishes rather than fighting them. A soft cheese or a slice of vitello tonnato picks up the same warm register.
Try with: Caciocavallo farcito · Frico · Vitello Tonnato · Focaccia Genovese · More pairings →
Bubbles and acidity make chilli burn hotter, and the alcohol carries the heat further. Sweet sauces do the opposite damage. They make a dry wine at 6.5 grams of sugar per litre taste thin and sour. Save this bottle for the starter, not the curry.
Skip with: Kerala prawn curry · Sweet and sour prawns · Tandoori prawns · Salt and pepper prawns · Pairing guide →
This is a vintage wine, released after at least 30 months on its yeasts, and vino.com lists 40 months for the 2021. It drinks well now and should hold to about 2031.
Peak around 2027. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
A vintage Franciacorta with at least 30 months on its yeasts will hold to about 2031, though it is not built for a decade in the dark like a Riserva.
£31.10 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumSatèn is Franciacorta's softest style. It is made only from white grapes, and it is bottled at about five bars of pressure instead of the usual six. That lower pressure gives a finer, creamier bubble, which is where the name comes from. Freccianera makes its Satèn from 100% Chardonnay.
Apple, pear and lemon come first, then a warm bready note from its long rest on the yeasts. Drinkers on Vivino most often mention orchard fruit and citrus, then cream and brioche. The estate's own sheet adds peach and a touch of vanilla. It finishes dry and savoury, at 6.5 grams of sugar per litre.
Fried and salty things work best. Try it with sciatt, the fried cheese fritters of nearby Valtellina, or with oysters, whipped salt cod, or a creamy Risotto alla Milanese. Decanter's Charles Curtis MW points out that Satèn's softer texture suits food better than a straight aperitif.
The 2022 vintage did, not the 2021 sold here. Freccianera Satèn Millesimato 2022 was named Best in Show at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2026. It was the first Franciacorta ever to take that title, and the only Italian sparkling wine to do so that year. The 2021 is the vintage before it, from the same vines and the same method.
Drink it between now and about 2031, with a sweet spot around 2027. It has already spent at least 30 months on its yeasts before release, so it arrives ready. Keep it lying down somewhere cool and dark, and serve it at 8 to 10 degrees.
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