Franchina & Giarone

Luca Pizzetti produces wine in the Modenese hills around Formigine, the place where he grew up.

Franchina and Giarone are the names of the first two vineyard plots that Luca acquired on his return home. He had previously worked in the textile industry in Africa since he was 20 years old, but some time later decided to become a winemaker in the hills of Modena, at home.

Still very young, he embarked on his new path with 4 ha of rented vineyards and 4 ha of his own, some of which he planted in 2018 with a small but varied selection of ancient local varieties. In addition to grapes, Luca grows pears, apricots and cherries, as well as a couple of hectares of cereals.  

The vineyards are cultivated exclusively with indigenous grapes, most of them between 20 and 50 years old. The most important varieties are: Lambrusco Grasparossa and above all the Trebbiani (Modenese and Spagna) and then Sgavetta, Negretto, Malbo Gentile, Uva Tosca and Festasio, an ancient grape variety that risked disappearing with the decline of traditional viticulture in the Emilian hinterland.