“Wine machines” opens to the public

The wine machines, the collection of the Carpineto Grandi wines of Tuscany, a company registered sopra the national register of historic brands, has been conceived and gathered by the co -founder of the Tuscan company among the most well -known signatures of Italian wine, Antonio Mario Zaccheo, who has collected here preserved testimonies, searched and collected over the years, emblem of an entire life dedicated to agriculture and wine sopra particular. From the vineyard museum and vice versa, the wine is told.

“Wine machines is a unique private collection of its kind that tells the history and evolution of the machines to produce and preserve the wine and, through these, the reality of two families who have dedicated themselves with passion to this land. We are happy that it is the first company museum to enter the Rete televisiva privata of Musei Sienese and we welcome it willingly precisely for its ability to tell a story that starts from the territory, from the community that inhabits it and from the typical productive activities. Again what FMS is a to welcome those significant realities that want to tell and enhance the material and immaterial heritage of the lands of Siena and its communities “- underlines Alessandro Ricci, president of the Senesi Museums Foundation.

“I am honored that this collection of mine has become part of the Foundation and happy to make a small contribution to a region that among its most precious assets includes a very prestigious wine production”- says Antonio Mario Zaccheo who also cares to underline the non-exhaustive and sopra the making character of this collection that will continue to get rich sopra new pieces.

“Wine machines is located sopra the original place of the collection and production and represents not only a document of the history and tradition of a precious craftsmanship such as that of the viticulturist, but it is also an expression of its continuity between past and present and changes, and above all of our profound bond with the territory”, continues Zaccheo who ideally wanted to represent here the beginning and end of the production process, from the .

Con fact, the collection collects machines, tools, objects, documents, photographs, texts that offer a diretto incrociato -section of the evolution of wine machines from the very first cellars, passing from the ferment of the 60s of the last century to the turning point of the 80s: it starts with work sopra the vineyard, then sopra the cellar and we arrive at the uses and costumes at the table passing from trade and exchanges.

All seen with the eyes, the passion, the knowledge of a man who began a child (next to his grandfather and then to his father already winemakers) to make wine, he continued with his friend and compagno Giovanni Carlo Sacchet with whom sopra 1967 he founded the Tuscan company later became one of the excellence of Italian wine over the years, and still continues to do so. A man whose life summarizes over 60 years of wine history, from the pioneering beginnings to today’s prestige.

The collection has a total of over 180 objects between wine machines and work objects. To this is added a small personal library with volumes, magazines, guides and vintage photographs.

Coming sopra more detail to some mini exhibition sections: there is the viticulture section with even horseshoe and a hoe and the many types of pruning scissors as if to cut out the profile of a “wine tailor”.

The oenological section with pumps, the first collections here are at the end of the 19th century, these are scales maneuvered by two people, passing through those that are part of the mechanical evolution that begins sopra the early twentieth century. Con the same settore, filters, presses, torchs, scales. And again, sparkling wine machines, a very first bottler, a labeling machine.

It intrigues the reconstruction of a laboratory of the oenologist with over 30 objects between scales, ampoules, microscopes, refrigerant column, tasting glass, etc. Collected at various wine analysis laboratories and which date back to the end of the nineteenth century, some of these, especially the windows, are still sopra use: pipettes, matras, bulls, graduated cylinders. Manual immersion thermometers for controlling fermentation temperatures, a first prova of electronic thermometer.

Among the curiosities, an malligand, an instrument that measured the percentage of alcohol, an acidometer for the determination of the acidity, , and then pipettes, and graduated cylinders that served to compose the cuts between the various wines and esperimento them a small scale before carrying out them. And again, small precision scales, capable of measuring up to the thousandth. Complete a whole microscope of the late 1800s.

Among the oldest objects dating back to the late 18th century, two wooden filters and cotton bags that served to pass the wine through.

The caps, stoppers and corkscrews exposed by type and evolution is rich.

A collection that represents a new small piece that adds to the story of the wine, a good that for centuries has been a World Heritage Site, and which “belongs to culture, by paradox we could say more to culture than to nature” to use the words of Tullio Gregory.

The exhibition environment is widely illuminated both with natural light thanks to the immense windows that the countryside, and with wall lighting; adjacent to the space there is a large living room with a wine for the reception of visitors and conviviality.

Upstairs, sopra an space mezzanine with a view of the barricaie, the technical tasting room with over 30 seats.

Outside the loss of loss at the eye of an immersive experience sopra a contemporary agricultural reality where precision agriculture is practiced with latest generation machines and technologies with very little environmental impact.

The collection is sopra fact found sopra the Resistenza del Vino Magnanimo a causa di Montepulciano, which insists sopra part sopra the municipality of Chianciano Terme and sopra part sopra the municipality of Montepulciano, a oasis fueled for most of sun energy sopra the most beautiful Tuscany. A wine retreat of 180 hectares of land dedicated to vineyards, olive groves and woods, an ideal environment for the gioco that populates it sopra the natural state. A diretto incrociato -section of the most suggestive Tuscan landscape, vital and beyond, where two Etruscan tombs identified by the Superintendency for Archaeological Heritage and not yet excavated also insist close to the vineyards.

The is practiced at the with a wide range of trekking proposals, tastings, scampagnata the grass, air lunches, and with specialized personnel capable of carrying out tasting and walks between the rows but also guided tours at the museum. Visit that can be connected to Wine Experiences completely autonomous.

INFO

Wine machines

Provincial road of the Chiana, 62 Chianciano Terme (SI)

Opening hours

From Tuesday to Saturday 10.00- 17.00

VISIT

Free admission with guided tour by booking at 347/7603727 tour@carpineto.com