Francesco Zonin graduated in 1998 with a degree in Business and Economics from Milan's Luigi Bocconi University.

After graduating, he moved to the United States to begin work on behalf of Casa Vinicola Zonin and the Zonin family’s estates. He aimed to gain first-hand experience of what was becoming an export market of vital importance for his family's company.

He was directly responsible for developing the network of importers and distributors for all of the wines. At the same time, he devoted himself to developing Barboursville Vineyards estate in Virginia.

He returned to Italy in 2002 to work at the headquarters of his family’s company in Gambellara. There, he was responsible for the management of the export department, whose structure and operation he dramatically transformed. In 2006 he was appointed, along with his brother Domenico, as an Executive Vice President of Casa Vinicola Zonin S.p.A.  In this role he took on responsibility for all of the firm’s commercial activities in Italy and abroad.