It’s a unique opportunity that offers the possibility to discover the history and techniques of enology and all the many aspects of wine growing in the Langhe district with the aid of copious documentation from the past.
Each item tells the tale of peasant life and bears witness to the inventiveness and willpower of our ancestors. The vast collection of papers and documents offers a suggestive overview of town statutes, grape harvest levies and liabilities, regulations and maps of the Alba wines’ zones of origin.
The cultural work carried on by Renato Ratti, matching his enological achievements, was paramount in laying out the exhibition and above all in restoring to the wines everything that was in their orbit across the centuries and had defined the culture in which they were immersed.