The best distilleries in Trentino-Alto Adige.
Historic winery and distillery in Trentino; wines and grappas of quality for five generations.
In Mezzolombardo, capital of the Rotaliano area, the De Varda noble family since 1678 have been vineyard owners, winemakers and grappa producers. In the early nineteenth century, grandfather Michele Dolzan in those same wineries began his activities of the art of distillation, now in its fifth generation.
Knight Luigi Dolzan, passionate heir of the traditions and teachings of father Giovanni, together with his sons Michele and Mauro, continues the activities with those rooted ideals, attentive to the changes in the market, with modern technology, but according to the teachings of the family.
Since 1957, when our father Vincenzo had the idea to build a small distillery, we have conceived grappa not as a distillate but as part of our lives and we love it. The land where we live and work, the Cembra Valley, helps us with its centuries–old tradition, our preparation about wine pushes us to search for a better and better distillate, the modesty of our father controls easy enthusiasm, the energy and the teachings of our mother follow us in our everyday work. The wise Saverio, who for years has helped us and taught us many secrets of distillation, loved to repeat to us: do not do calculations, we will end up distilling when we are done, woe to be in a hurry.
We are in Faver, an ancient town located in the mid of the Cembra Valley, on the side of a mountain with the picturesque and sinister name of Monte Avvoltoio (Mount Vulture) readily changed by the villagers of Mount Pincaldo. Our new distillery is located in Portegnac at the end of the terroir of the Cembra Valley. It seemed like the most natural place in the world to distill because it is an ancient place of water and home to old mills, with the direct vicinity of Mount Castion or Castrum, as the Latins liked to say, and the place where already the Celts called their spirits.
The Paolazzi Distillery was founded in 1962 in Faver to continue the tradition of the family "lambicar". Faver is a small village in the Cembra Valley, considered by many people as "the cradle of grappa". For a long time, in the Cembra Valley, a risky illegal distillation of pomace has taken place, a resource that allowed the survival of the rural economy, very hard and poor. And it is precisely for this reason that the term "lambicar" takes on a double meaning, that is "the Art of producing grappa" (to distil), and "to lead a life of hardship and effort in the poor rural reality of the past". The paternal grandfather was already the holder of a still earlier than the annexation of Trentino to Italy, when grappa was still measured with the "congial de ram" marked with the two–headed eagle.
In this way, Vittorio Paolazzi, once completed his studies at the San Michele Agricultural Institute, decided to make noble the activity of the "lambicar" of his family’s company farm creating a small distillery. In order to respect the tradition of Trentino and of the Cembra Valley, the discontinuous steam distillation method has been chosen. Today, after fifty years of activity, the small distillery has grown and has accumulated a lot of experience in distilling and in taking care of all those details necessary to obtain quality products, while maintaining typicality and tradition.
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via Rotaliana 27/a 38017
Mezzolombardo (Trento)
Historic winery and distillery in Trentino; wines and grappas of quality for five generations. In Mezzolombardo, capital of the Rotaliano area, the De Varda noble family since 1678 have been...
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Via Portegnago, 5 38030
Faver (Trento)
Since 1957, when our father Vincenzo had the idea to build a small distillery, we have conceived grappa not as a distillate but as part of our lives and we love it. The land where we live and...
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Via Vich, 27 38030
Faver (Trento)
The Paolazzi Distillery was founded in 1962 in Faver to continue the tradition of the family "lambicar". Faver is a small village in the Cembra Valley, considered by many people as "the cradle of...
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Via Nazionale 38 38060
Volano (Trento)
Via Per Brancolino 10 38060
Nogaredo (Trento)
Via Rio Della Torre 17 39057
Appiano sulla Strada del Vino (Bolzano)
17, v. Bolzano 39011
Lana (Bolzano)
31, v. Capitelli 38074
Dro (Trento)
Via San Siro 7/a 38076
Lasino (Trento)
44, v. Von Zallinger 39040
Termeno sulla Strada del Vino (Bolzano)
