Bellavista is Italy’s most admired producer of sparkling wines made in the méthode champenoise. The estate was founded in 1984 by Vittorio Moretti, who was a highly successful construction industry entrepreneur before dipping his toe into wine production. He now owns several wine estates, and Bellavista is today a nearly 500-acre estate with a sleek, modern tasting room and cellars comparable to the modernist wine estates of northern California. Moretti was the first of what is now a larger community of wealthy industrialists who’ve opened wineries in the Franciacorta DOCG, just northeast of Milan. Bellavista started the trend in Franciacorta of producing sparkling wine using traditional Champagne methods, in which the secondary fermentation occurs in the bottle, among other practices. Gambero Rosso has often awarded Bellavista’s wines 3 glasses, and the winery itself has the distinction of being one of Gambero Rosso’s Two Star producers, meaning the winery has produced a large number of 3 glass wines. Gambero Rosso noted in 2016 that “the Bellavista style, developed over the years with the aid of oenologist Mattia Vezzola, is an unmistakable blend of elegance and complexity.”