2019 Curtefranca Bianco 'Convento SS Annunciata', Bellavista

A wine of quiet devotion and luminous depth, the 2019 Convento SS. Annunciata opens with a bright straw-gold hue and aromas that seem to float from the glass: ancient rose, wild geranium, and candied citrus peel layered with apricot, pineapple, and almond cream. The palate glides effortlessly between richness and precision: ripe orchard fruit framed by a silken mineral tension, with hints of chalk, herbs, and honey. It’s both generous and ethereal, a wine that hums with energy yet finishes in perfect stillness, long and pure, like a final note held in a vaulted chapel.

For when: you crave reflection as much as revelation.
Pairs with: turbot with beurre blanc, porcini risotto, or aged goat cheese.
If this wine were a sound, it’d be a single cello under candlelight, resonant, soulful, and beautifully restrained.

From a vineyard once tended by friars on the slopes of Mount Orfano, Bellavista’s Convento SS. Annunciata is a rare expression of Chardonnay shaped by centuries of quiet stewardship. The vines, rooted in the monastery’s ancient soils, are vinified parcel by parcel in small oak barrels to preserve their individuality. Under the guiding hand of the Moretti family, this limited cuvée reveals the serene precision of Franciacorta’s terroir, spiritual, elegant, and profoundly moving in its simplicity.