Ferrari F.lli Lunelli S.p.A., or Ferrari Trento or Cantine Ferrari, is an Italian company specialized in the production of the

Traditional Method The traditional method is the process used in the Champagne region of France to produce Champagne. It is also the method used in various French regions to produce sparkling wines (not called “Champagne”), in Spain to produce Cava, in Portu ...

sparkling wine Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it fizzy. While the phrase commonly refers to champagne, European Union countries legally reserve that term for products exclusively produced in the Champagne regi ...

, also called

Metodo Classico Sparkling wine production is the method of winemaking used to produce sparkling wine. The oldest known production of sparkling wine took place in 1531 with the ''ancestral method''. Pressure and terminology In popular parlance and also in the ...

or Méthode Classique. Ferrari Trento is the biggest company of Lunelli Group, a corporation of six different brands operating in the

wine Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from Fermentation in winemaking, fermented grapes. Yeast in winemaking, Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different ...

(Tenute Lunelli and Bisol),

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(Surgiva),

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and

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sector (Segnana). The Lunelli Group also has a two-Star Michelin restaurant, Locanda Margon. Ferrari Trento is a member of the Trentodoc consortium, an association that disciplines the production of this type of

. DOC is similar to the French Appellation Contrôlée. Within the Ferrari's cellars it is possible to find over 24 million sparkling wine bottles which are fermenting from at least 2 years up to 15.

History

Giulio Ferrari was born on 9 April 1879 in

Calceranica al Lago Calceranica al Lago (''Calzerànega'' in local dialect) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about east of Trento. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,209 an ...

, at the time part of the Austrian

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. In 1902, he decided to make sparkling wine in Austria and in Italy with the ''metodo Ferrari'', essentially the same as the traditional ''

methode Champenoise Sparkling wine production is the method of winemaking used to produce sparkling wine. The oldest known production of sparkling wine took place in 1531 with the ''ancestral method''. Pressure and terminology In popular parlance and also in the ...

'' (method of Champagne), with the wine being aged for four to five years. In 1952, Ferrari was aged, tired, and childless, so he chose Bruno Lunelli (1907-1973), who owned a wine shop in Trento and had five children, to take over the winery. At the time, Ferrari was making 9,000 bottles per year. Giulio Ferrari died in Trento on 14 January 1965. In 1969, Bruno Lunelli, aged 63, decided to step down and leave responsibilities to the second generation: Franco (1935), Giorgio (1937), Gino (1939), Carla (1945), and Mauro (1948). The third and current generation comprises Matteo Lunelli (President and CEO), Camilla Lunelli, Alessandro Lunelli, and Marcello Lunelli. Starting with the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Ferrari Trento became the official

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, taking over from Carbon champagne.

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* * Italian brands Wine brands Italian wine Sparkling wines Food and drink companies established in 1902 Italian companies established in 1902 {{winery-stub