Museo enológico Villa de Varda, Mezzolombardo

The map of Italian food and wine memory records two remarkable museum realities in Trentino: the Honey Museum in Lavarone and the one called “Cose di Casa” created by the Dolzan family at their distillery in Villa de Varda in Mezzolombardo. In one of the cellars of the winery, which for almost two centuries has produced grappa from the distillation of fresh fermented pomace, a museum space arranged in three sections has been set up. Here we find agricultural carts, tools for harvesting and for the production of wine and brandy, other implements of farming activity as well as an important series of copper stills, made between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the approximately 1,600 pieces on display, which recall the development of Trentino agriculture and the evolution of winemaking and distillation techniques, a sixteenth-century copper still and a seventeenth-century wooden press are noteworthy for their age and rarity. The Rotalian ethnographic collection is considered one of the most complete private collections in the sector at the national level.