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| Renato Ratti | ||
| Abbazia dell'Annunziata | ||
| 12064 - La Morra (Cn) - Italy | ||
| Tel. +39 0173 50185 | ||
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The history of the Abbey and the Museum The ancient Abbey in honor of Our Lady of the Annunciation was erected in or around the year One Thousand. Renato Ratti's Museum for the Wines of Alba came into being in 1971. 2nd Century AD In ancient Roman times, the present-day hamlet of Annunziata outside of La Morra came into being as a rural settlement. Year One Thousand The Romanesque Abbey of St. Martin of Marcenasco was erected over the ruins of an ancient castle. The priorate belonged to the Benedictine Friars and possessed vineyards all around the monastery, vineyards denominated "Marcenasco" which produced a wine called "Nebiolium." 1479 A new convent was chartered for the Order of the Servants of Mary. The complex became an important socio-religious hub as well as wine production center replete with cellars and adjoining rural constructions. 1684 The Church, designed by the architect Michelangelo Garove in the baroque style and dedicated to Our Lady of the Annunciation, was erected beside the Abbey, on the ruins of the original ancient parish church. 1804 Pope Pious VII briefly sojourned there on his way back from France. Noted was his exclamation: "Ah! Morra! Fine sky and good wine!". 1867 With the Siccardi Edicts, ownership of the Abbey passed to the township of La Morra. 1965 Renato Ratti came and, after using the space to produce Barolo, transformed it, in 1971, into the Ratti Museum of the Wines of Alba. The Renato Ratti Museum of the Wines of Alba >> The Museum, a living compendium of traditions and images, set right beside the production cellar, was realized in 1971 by Renato Ratti to worthily crown the work of refining grapes and wines and to foster the good name and high honor of Alba as an important wine capital of the world. He gathered within the venerable old walls of the Abbey dell'Annunziata objects and documents through which the local vines and wines could tell their age-long story. Antique vats, an evolutionary series of bottles, pressure corkers, measuring instruments, wooden ploughs, presses with spiraling wooden screws and nut screws, a series of fascinating documents (town statutes, harvest proclamations, rules and regulations for the circulation and commerce of wine, ordinances) as well as historical and technical outlines of the zones of origin for all of Alba's great wines. While drawing in the visitors, the Museum pays respect to the age-old local traditions and is simultaneously entertaining and didactic. The maps of the Renato Ratti Wines of Alba Museum >>
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