![]() ![]() We had anticipated, based on our itinerary, that we would be touring a wine museum. Italian Transportation History – at a Wine Museum? Perhaps it was because we received a private tour, to learn about the different artifacts on display, or perhaps it was because the subject of the tour related to wine, but this was one museum that I thoroughly enjoyed. It is probably pretty similar to those machines that people have in their houses now that make sparkling water, but for wine! It was explained like this: if you have a customer in the restaurant who wants a bottle of sparkling wine, but you don’t have any on hand, then this ancient machine would make it sparkling. The most interesting piece of wine history, though, included a machine that could make any bottle of wine sparkling. Just merely 92, as in, it was the 92nd phone number that had been issued at the time. Some of them even included telephone numbers, the strangest of which was telephone number “92”. Many of the pieces included the names of companies from nearby towns within Emilia Romagna. The Gavioli wine museum collection included artifacts from Italy and all over Europe. ![]() It was a labor intensive process, including washing the bottles one at a time, inserting corks, labeling – everything was done by hand. Many of the seemingly ancient tools were used up until the Second World War. From a French wine press dating from the late 18th Century, up to more current methods of production, the Gavioli wine museum spans over 200 years of wine history.Īs we walked through the two main museum rooms, we learned about the process of how wine has been made over the last few hundred years, from picking the grapes, to pressing them, to fermenting the wine. Instead of a wine shop/museum/tourist trap, the Giacobazzi family patriarch has been collecting artifacts relating to wine production for at least 50 years. I thought this would be nothing more than a wine shop, disguised as a museum, to get people to buy the Gavioli wines. Considering how I normally feel about museums, I was a little disappointed. I snooped around and started to see some wine artifacts. We stepped into a white, modern and open plan wine shop, as we waited for our contact. We arrived at Gavioli Wine Museum, just outside of Modena, Italy. There seems to be an exception though – wine museums. But, we know what we like and what we don’t, and we don’t like museums. Many people criticize us for this, saying we are missing something, or not learning from history. We tend to skip most, if not all, “must see” museums in every town or city we travel through. I often make it known that we are not museum people. ![]()
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