Italian Wine Podcast

Episode 859 Steve Raye interviews Silvano Brescianini, President of Consorzio Franciacorta in this installment of Get US Market Ready With Italian Wine People on the Italian Wine Podcast. About today’s guest: The Franciacorta Consortium is the body that guarantees and monitors Franciacorta production standards, as the first Italian wine produced exclusively with the bottle refermentation process to have obtained the Protected and Guaranteed Designation of Origin (DOCG) denomination in 1995. The consortium's work takes various forms: safeguarding the brand and the area, promoting the product in ongoing work on the production regulations and standards, raising consumer awareness and promoting Franciacorta as an expression of an area, a wine and a production method. Founded on 5 March 1990, its head offices are in Erbusco, in the heart of Franciacorta. The consortium is presided over by Silvano Brescianini and has 121 wine estate members. You can find out more about this guest by visiting: Website: www.franciaco