Winery Arcari + Danesi

The company was born from the idea and partnership of Giovanni Arcari and Nico Danesi: childhood friends with experience in trade and winemaking who brought the business project to life by opening their winery on Montorfano. The company was established in 2006 and, from 2008, began producing Franciacorta using the SoloUVA method, based on extended ripening of the grapes and secondary fermentation without added sugars.

The winemaking philosophy aims to showcase ripe grapes and the local terroir: harvest is delayed until phenolic maturity, pressing is gentle to preserve acidity and freshness, and only self-produced sugars are used for the secondary fermentation, avoiding the addition of sucrose or other exogenous sugars. The goal is to produce wines that naturally express the fruit and soils of Franciacorta.

The winery is located on Montorfano in the municipality of Coccaglio. Montorfano is a landform older than the surrounding morainic hills and has ancient, iron-rich red soils that impart minerality and sapidity to the wines. The vineyards are partly terraced and face south over the Po Valley.