ANTICA FRATTA

The cellar, built in the district of Monticelli Brusati, was already spoken of with admiration in the mid-nineteenth century.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the knight Luigi Rossetti, rich merchant of the area, transformed a farmhouse presumably dating back to the sixteenth century in his elegant residence, as well as in the seat of his wine trade, on the basis of which he built the beautiful cellars carved into the living rock of the hill behind the Villa; with four gallery trunks arranged in the shape of a Greek cross, the cellar could accommodate six thousand hectoliters of wine, an enormity for those times. Hence the nickname given to it by the locals: el cantinù, the wine cellar. 

 With the death of Luigi Rossetti, the property changed hands several times, going through a period of abandonment, interrupted in 1979 by the birth of Antica Fratta, the project to restore it to its former glory. 
Today Antica Fratta "starts again" from its new, great ambitions, with the firm intention of becoming "Essence" of Franciacorta.