The story of the Cappellano vineyard begins with the great-great-grandfather, the notary Filippo Cappellano, a rich landowner with a passion for wine, who, at the age of 48, founded the company, bringing together 150 giornate piemontesi (corresponding to about 60 hectares) into one estate of farmland. When he died, his son Giovanni, an enologist, succeeded him in managing the company; he renovated the vineyard, and he built two hotels in Alba and in Serralunga, with all the best facilities available for the tourism of Liguria and Piemonte. He created the famous \u201cgrape cure\u201d in Serralunga, establishing a transport service by horse and carriage from the train station of Alba.<\/p>\n
In 1889, at the Paris Universal Exhibition, Giovanni Cappellano’s vineyard won a bronze medal. He probably went to France in order to corner its market, since French grapevines in those years had already been attacked by the terrible phylloxera. Giuseppe, Giovanni\u2019s brother, instead graduated in pharmacy, choosing the industrial way of wine- pharmaceutical production. He created in that period concentrated musts, used for their healing effects, and the first grape jellies (winning a gold medal at the international exhibition of wine products). Furthermore he invented the famous Barolo Chinato. The industrial adventure of Giuseppe ended soon: in 1912 his brother Giovanni died from a tropical fever contracted in Tunisia, where he had gone in order to look for some species of vines resistant to phylloxera, so Giuseppe chose to take care of the family company.<\/p>\n
Augusto’s grandfather Francesco Augusto Cappellano, an oenologist, followed his ancestors\u2019 footsteps in passing on the baton to his son Teobaldo, Augusto’s father, at the end of the 1960s. After his childhood in Eritrea, Teobaldo took the helm of the company and changed it dramatically: much smaller in size and highest quality control, following very specific guidelines.<\/p>\n
It was the closing of 1870 when Giuseppe Cappellano, pharmacist of Serralunga d\u2019Alba with a shop in Turin, perfected the original recipe of Barolo Chinato marketing as \u201cmedicinal and anti-malaric liniment\u201d what would shortly after become one of the classics of Italian oenology. We talk of recipe and not of formula because this great aromatic wine for meditation is born out of artisanal wisdom, handed down in our family generation after generation, which has much in common with the knowledge of the land and countryside culture. The preparation is well-known \u2012 the extract of china calissaia mixed with other aromatic herbs, sugar, and alcohol is added to the aged Barolo \u2012 whereas the list of spices used for the aroma is secret. The equilibrium of contrasts, the gusto-olfactive complexity, and an endless persistence constitute the charm of a wine which is seductive as few others, capable of sustaining the nigh-impossible match with dark chocolate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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