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 has been producing grappas for almost two centuries starting from the distillation of fresh fermented pomace, a museum space has been set up divided into three sections. There we find agricultural carts, tools for grape harvesting and for the production of wine and brandy, other implements of farming activity as well as an important collection of copper stills, made between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the approximately 1,600 exhibited pieces, which recall the development of Trentino agriculture and the evolution of winemaking and distillation techniques, especially noteworthy for their age and rarity are a sixteenth-century copper still and a seventeenth-century wooden press. The Rotalian ethnographic collection is considered one of the most complete private collections in the sector at the national level.