The Cavazza museum
Second floor of the Tower.
On the second floor of the Tower is the Cavazza oenology Museum.
1894 | Domizio Cavazza, the then director of the Scuola Enologica di Alba (Alba Oenological School), bought the castle of Barbaresco with properties in the areas of Pora and Ovello and founded the Cantine Sociali di Barbaresco (Barbaresco Cooperative Wineries): this is how Cavazza’s key work to improve the quality of Barbaresco began.
In that year he developed the modern method for the vinification of Nebbiolo and launched the Barbaresco dry wine on the national markets, alongside the already famous Barolo.
The true story of Barbaresco therefore began only in 1894, when Domizio Cavazza founded the Cantina Sociale di Barbaresco. The first ten tonnes of grapes were vinified that very year, and it was the fermented juice of those grapes that would finally be given the name Barbaresco on a printed label.
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