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  Dr. Simone Tarantino

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  Do You Know TALENTO?

  A long, sparkling story
  In 1850, Carlo Gancia made the Italy’s first “Champagne.”
  Today, his name graces a major enterprise where classic-method wines are still made with craft skill
  
  "Once, dozens of people worked here. It was back-breaking. You had to bend down to the floor to riddle the bottles on the lowest levels of the racks and then stretch up to the highest ones. Up, down and back up again all day long from morning till night. The workers used to eat like horses during the break but all that exercise kept them as thin as a rake,” reminisces our guide, Gianni Scaglione, who is showing us round the historic Gancia cellars. Scaglione has spent a lifetime here since he joined the Canelli-based cellar in 1954, watching times, fashions and technologies come and go. His memories offer an accurate chronicle, without a trace of nostalgia. “Luckily, today the riddle racks are only used for very small experimental batches. For our production classic-method wines, riddling is done in automatic VLMs,” he notes.
  
  READ THE REST FOR FREE on Il Mio Vino
  http://www.ilmiovinousa.com/IMVUSA/2009/0604/index.php?utm_s...
  
  • 24 Jul 2009, 12:27 am
  Dr. Simone Tarantino wrote: > A long, sparkling story > In 1850, Carlo Gancia made the Italy’s first “Champagne.” > Today, his name graces a major enterprise where classic-method wines > are still made with craft skill > > "Once, dozens of people worked here. It was back-breaking. You had to > bend down to the floor to riddle the bottles on the lowest levels of > the racks and then stretch up to the highest ones. Up, down and back > up again all day long from morning till night. The workers used to > eat like horses during the break but all that exercise kept them as > thin as a rake,” reminisces our guide, Gianni Scaglione, who is > showing us round the historic Gancia cellars. Scaglione has spent a > lifetime here since he joined the Canelli-based cellar in 1954, > watching times, fashions and technologies come and go. His memories > offer an accurate chronicle, without a trace of nostalgia. “Luckily, > today the riddle racks are only used for very small experimental > batches. For our production classic-method wines, riddling is done in > automatic VLMs,” he notes. > > READ THE REST FOR FREE on Il Mio Vino > http://www.ilmiovinousa.com/IMVUSA/2009/0604/index.php?utm_source=IMVUSA&utm_medium=issuu&utm_campaign=newsletter