Bersi Serlini Franciacorta

About Winery and Wines

Bersi Serlini Domaine finds its origin in the MiddleAge; in the related Abbazia di San Pietro in Lamosa, the Cluny Monks built the originary construction of our wine cellar: a dependence with farming and wine producing purpose. Big walls, made with field stones, with amazing barrel, groined and ribbed vaults. After 700 years of Cluny Monks, the property became private and in 1886 it was acquired by Bersi Serlini Family; it has been expanded in the second half of ‘900 from the grandpa, the Lawyer Piero Bersi Serlini and then restored under the visionary guide of the son Arturo. Arturo was the person who produced in 1970 the very first bottle of Brut in Franciacorta. Today Franciacorta still is property of Bersi Serlini Family. Arturo is the President of the Maison and with the daughters Chiara and Maddalena Bersi Serlini, follows with passion the bubbles production and the winery communication and public image.

Franciacorta wines were the first to obtain in just 30 years the DOC (guarantee of origin) and then in 1995 the DOCG (guarantee of quality and origin) certifications. Each Franciacorta wine, the only italian Brut with bottle fermentation, is produced with handpicked noble grapes (Chardonnay, Black and White Pinot) softly pressed. In Spring, after must partition, we usually define the cuvees after the tasting. After natural enzymes and cane sugar addiction, musts are barreled and sealed with steel and then they are left in our caveau to ripen for a long time. To refine our productions, here at Bersi Serlini, we use the hand remouage of the bottles in the pupitres to nurture yeast sediment in the neck of the bottles. Disgorging, expedition liqueurs addition and bottlement operations complete our wines production and personalities. After an almost two-months long cellar refinement our bubbles are finally ready to taste