Museo della grappa

The area of Alessandria is renowned for its wines, but once the fermentation process is complete, the bunch of grapes can still be used to produce grappa and this is why we find the Grappa Museum in Altavilla. Open to visitors and enthusiasts, the historical premises of tufo and bricks gathers and exhibits the evidence of the distilling activity, closely connected to the area in which the same family has carried it out for six generations. Next to the original steam still from the 19th century, in the rooms and corridors of the distillery, other old distilling and bottling equipment is placed alongside that of the rural Piedmont world, the awards won in the early 20th century, the old family portraits as far as the current artistic blown glass bottles. All to retrace, in the magical atmosphere of the ancient structure, a space of time which has crossed the beginning of the third century and allows the past and present to unfold one beside the other, looking to the future.