Museum of Wine Dinastía Vivanco
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0. Rioja: the wine of a land
La Rioja is a land with a valuable cultural and historical inheritance, as well as a region with a great wine, producing tradition of wines of the highest quality. It is in La Rioja where there is born and lives the family Vivanco that, with a long tradition wine-producing and compromised with this land, they promotes the diffusion of the culture of the wine.
1. Born, grow, mature...
From his origins, the wine has been something more than a drink for the repercussion that has had in the cultures where it has settled itself. Across the equipment and the machinery with which the man has helped himself, the culture of the grapevine appears along four stations of the year and how the wine is elaborated.
2. Guard the essences
The man discovered that, during the upbringing, the cask of wood was providing to the wine of new aromas. Then it verified that the glass bottle was ideal to round his qualities and for his aging. Also it detected that the stopper of cork was isolating adequately of the exterior. It is as well as coopers, glaziers and craftsmen of the cork of turned in public inspectors allied of the butler.
3. The warehouse: the dream
Not everything is quietude and quiet upbringing in a warehouse. The silence vanishes with the decantings, clarified and leaked: necessary works to elaborate a good wine. With the prepared wine, his marketing and transport comes. Amphorae, hides, casks or bottles are the containers that transporados enc arros, ships or trains have come to the limits of the world and have turned to the wine in a universal drink.
Viewing-point of the Room octogonal of upbringing. The Museum, across a viewing-point there enters the Ship octogonal of upbringing of the Warehouse Dynasty Vivanco, one I spice spectacularly where his(her,your) more select wines rest in casks.
4. The wine: art and symbol
Along the history, the grapevine and the wine ahn acquired a symbolic value and an important cultural dimension. The collection of art and archaeology re-joins works of the most varied epochs and technologies that share the common denominator of being linked to the wine.
5. Open, serve and drink
There comes the moment to differ from the wine. But how to open a bottle without the help of a corkscrew? One shows herself of m, ás extensive collections of sacadorchos of the world - more than 3.000 copies-, which shows the evolution and diversity of this simple instrument. With the opened bottle, the wine must be served and be drunk. The collection assembles elements of service and containers to taste the wine from the Antiquity up to the 20th century, which there reflect the changes marked by the customs and the modes of every epoch.
6. Baco's garden
The foreign zone of the Museum offers the posibidad of one of the collections visits a beautiful garden with mas of 200 varieties of grapevines - ampelográficas more important private roads of the world-, to enjoy the agreeable landscape or to discover two treadmills of the 19th century belonging to the former estate.
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