Come and discover our world: the warmth of the potstill room, the scent of the ageing room and the history of our family will wow you! We have prepared some solutions to give you the opportunity to visit us: book your Villa de Varda experience, we will contact you to define details and to confirm your visit in our distillery!
TYPE OF VISIT
inQuota DISCOVER
Explore with us the fascinating world of whisky, from barley to the final tasting. During the tour, you will understand the importance of selecting high-quality raw materials to ensure an excellent product. You will discover the complex process of malting and mash preparation, essential for creating the distinctive character and aroma of whisky. Experience the excitement of distillation by visiting historic stills, witnesses to traditions passed down through generations. Through the aging rooms, you will perceive the patient anticipation held within each wooden barrel, ready to reveal its unique nuances. At the end of the experience, you will become custodians of ancient secrets and unique flavors, ready to share the enchantment behind every drop of whisky with the world. Your visit will culminate in an exhilarating tasting of the first four mountain whiskies, a true immersion into their artisanal peculiarities.
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: 20,00 € per person
Host languages: Italian, English and German
inQuota 360° Whisky Edition
Our visit begins with an adventure through whisky production, starting from the source: barley. We immerse ourselves in the process of growing and harvesting barley, learning the importance of selecting high quality raw materials to achieve an excellent end product. We explore the complex malting process, where the barley is treated to activate the enzymes needed for fermentation, determining the character and aroma of the whisky. We delve into the heart of mash creation, a symphony of water and malted barley that will create the vibrant heart of our whisky. But the excitement doesn’t stop there! The historic stills, custodians of traditions handed down from generation to generation, where the magic of distillation will come to life before your eyes. We will continue to the ageing rooms, where each wooden barrel represents a unique story and patient waiting. At the end of your experience, you will be not just spectators, but keepers of ancient secrets and unique flavours, ready to share with the world the enchantment behind every single drop of whisky. Our guided tour will end with an exciting tasting of our first four mountain whiskies served with some local food products/snack. It will be a unique experience to savour the peculiarities of these artisanal creations and to be enchanted by the unique nuances conferred by the Alpine lands.
Duration: 120 minutes
Price: €40 pp, (min 2 pax) underage can join in the visit but not taste
Host languages: Italian, English and German
Villa de Varda EXPERIENCE
We will start by learning about the history of this family of distillers in Trentino for 6 generations, with over 170 years of experience in the art of spirit making. We will then move on to the distillery, which may be operating or at rest, depending on the time of the year, where we will explain what grappa is and explore the traditional Trentino method, along with our very own special system, the “de Varda” method, for a soft and clean-cut grappa. This will be followed by a detailed discussion on the importance of grape skin selection, distillation, dilution, refrigeration and lastly, rest.
We will then descend into the oldest room of Villa de Varda, where you have the chance to admire our barrel cellar, before we delve into the most romantic details of grappa production: ageing, types of wood used, ageing techniques, our standards and exceptions for niche and flagship Villa de Varda products. The visit will continue at the “Cose di Casa” museum, with its rich repertoire of antique tools collected by the Dolzan family over the centuries. This collection of excellent ethnographic and cultural value includes 1600 catalogued antique artefacts, farming, winery and distillery tools, dating back from the 1500s to the early 1900s, and 280 historic documents bearing ethnographic information on the family’s life over the centuries
We then move on to our boutique, where the experience will end with the tasting of 4 grappas of your choice.
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: 20,00 € per person
Host languages: Italian, English and German
Villa de Varda 360°
A complete experience to discover all there is to know about the world of distillation and grappa. From the distillery will we walk among the Dolzan family’s historic alembic stills, still in use today and which produce the finest grappas of Villa de Varda. We will discover the scents that will accompany us throughout the distillery, and the process of ageing in the finest oak barrels. Then, on to a small workshop of the senses, where we will learn more about the origin of this richly unique and quintessentially Italian spirit. We will then descend into the oldest room of Villa de Varda so that you can admire our barrel cellar, where the finest grappas are left to age. We will delve into the matter of ageing, the fine woods used for our barrels, different techniques used by our master barrelmaker and the purpose of ageing of Villa de Varda grappas. Our barrel cellar is immersed in our “Cose di Casa” museum, inspired by the passion of Luigi Dolzan for the history of farming and his family’s traditions. A collection of excellent ethnographic and cultural value of over 1600 antique catalogued artefacts, historic tools that testify to the life of the Dolzan family over the centuries.
Your visit will continue at our boutique, where we will end with a tasting of our finest grappas served with food products.
Durations: 90 minutes
Price: €40 pp, (min 2 pax) underage can join in the visit but not taste
Languages: Italian, English and German.
Villa de Varda TAILOR MADE
A complete experience to discover all there is to know about the world of distillation and grappa. From the distillery will we walk among the Dolzan family’s historic alembic stills, still in use today and which produce the finest grappas of Villa de Varda. We will discover the scents that will accompany us throughout the distillery, and the process of ageing in the finest oak barrels. Then, on to a small workshop of the senses, where we will learn more about the origin of this richly unique and quintessentially Italian spirit. We will then descend into the oldest room of Villa de Varda so that you can admire our barrel cellar, where the finest grappas are left to age. We will delve into the matter of ageing, the fine woods used for our barrels, different techniques used by our master barrelmaker and the purpose of ageing of Villa de Varda grappas. Our barrel cellar is immersed in our “Cose di Casa” museum, inspired by the passion of Luigi Dolzan for the history of farming and his family’s traditions. A collection of excellent ethnographic and cultural value of over 1600 antique catalogued artefacts, historic tools that testify to the life of the Dolzan family over the centuries.
Your visit will continue at our boutique, where we will end with a tasting of our finest grappas served with food products.
Duration: 90 min Tour + Gourmet dinner
Price: € 130,00 pp.
Languages: Italian, English and German.
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