The history of Villa farm is closely related to the medieval hamlet of the same name, situated in the council of Monticelli Brusati in the heart of the Franciacorta area.
Monticelli Brusati has been famous for centuries for its production of wines which have been extolled by historians, poets and men of letters. The government land registry of 1610, a year of abundant grape production in Franciacorta, mentions the "sweet wines" of Monticelli Brusati; while in 1852, Gabriele Rosa, an expert on Franciacorta vine growing, considered some of the best wines to be those of "Monticello, Erbusco, Capriolo, but the wine of Monticello is the best of them all for its worth and its goodness".
The importance that vine growing had on the life of the community of the village of Villa is well represented by numerous maps (to be found on the farm), that describe the territory from 1600 to the end of 1700, when Napoleon added Franciacorta to his conquests.
In 1900 the history of wine production in the village of Villa, underwent the same crisis as in other areas of Franciacorta, as a result of the drawing out of the métayage contract, which did not favour the improvement of production.
The situation dragged on until 1960, the year in which the Bianchi family bought the village with the hundreds of hectares belonging to it.
The fundamental change started by the family of entrepreneurs was the transformation from the métayage system to that of direct management, followed by the reconstruction and preparation of new farming terrain dedicated exclusively to growing quality vines.
At the will of Sandro Bianchi, the owner of Villa Farm, in the following years the buildings were also restored and the first extension of the wine vault was begun, which until then had remained unchanged since the XVIth century.
It was towards the end of the 70s, after a journey to the Champagne area together with other Franciacorta wine producers, that Villa farm's vocation to producing sparkling wines emerged. The first results were encouraging, especially thanks to numerous deserved prizes at the Douja d'Or, where Villa was awarded the first gold medal to be granted to a sparkling wine of Franciacorta.