Christian Bellei

Coming Up

At Cantina della Volta in Bomporto, Christian Bellei has built his work around sparkling wine and Lambrusco di Sorbara, with the winery he founded in 2010 as the base for that focus. The line he draws around Sorbara is specific: he treats the grape as a material with its own shape and register, not just a regional marker. "Lambrusco di Sorbara’s character is like Chardonnay. It’s more feminine."

Where They Are Now

Since 2010, Christian Bellei has held both founder and winemaker roles at Cantina Della Volta, a combination that keeps the project under one set of decisions from cellar to vineyard. The emphasis stays on structure and control, with sparkling wine as the field where texture, lift, and balance carry as much weight as aroma or fruit. The current brief is plain: show what Lambrusco can do in sparkling form. Christian Bellei says it directly: "And I want to show the world what it can be in a sparkling wine." It reads as a working aim, not a slogan — a position on style, method, and how the category should be read. At home, the reference point stays in Champagne. Christian Bellei says, "Every two days at home, I finish a bottle of Herbert Beaufort Champagne from Bouzy." That habit signals a palate trained by repetition, one that keeps pace with sparkling wine through regular comparison rather than theory.

Signature

Christian's signature wines include Rimosso and Christian Bellei Millesimato. In the context of his work at Cantina Della Volta, they stand as the clearest markers of his approach to sparkling wine and the way he frames Lambrusco through that lens.

In Their Words “Every two days at home, I finish a bottle of Herbert Beaufort Champagne from Bouzy.”