Cavalleri, Lombardy
The Estate's Ultra Brut - bone dry, crisp as a freshly-starched dress shirt, and perfect for similarly formal occasions. Classically paired with oysters and other shellfish.
The Cavalleri estate
One wonders if the British wine-buying public's increasing interest in grower's Champagne (i.e. - confidence to experiment away from Les Grands Maisons) will spill over in to an appreciation of Italy's equivalently-impressive Franciacorta wines? Sampling Cavalleri's excellent metodo classico wines should undoubtably chivvy along any sceptics.