The Museum is located on the upper floor of the ancient Albea Cellar, an interesting example of 20th-century industrial architecture, and is an integral part of it, as visitors can appreciate, by comparing old agricultural tools with the modern winery technologies, the evolution that over the last century has marked the growth and improvement of Apulian wine production. The Albea cellar (the old name of Alberobello) was built in 1905. The structure is entirely made of stone, with tanks intended to hold wine underground in the rock, just as the cisterns used for supplying water to the trulli once were. The special care given to the construction of the cellar, which was not to be a simple production facility but also a beautiful building that would blend with the surrounding environment, is revealed in the elegant and sober interior architecture which echoes that of a mosque, with star-shaped vaults that connect at the top to the supporting pillars, made of stacked rock blocks with joints modeled with layers of red earth. The aim of the Museum is to spread knowledge of wine and the entire agricultural world made of passion, an inexhaustible heritage of culture and civilization.
Information on Alberobello Wine Museum
Via Due Macelli, 2
70011 Alberobello (Bari)
080.4323548
albea@albeavini.com
Source: MIBACT
