It is named after Bruno Lunelli, who inaugurated the fortune of Ferrari bubbles and who brought his land to the knowledge of the classic method. It is privately owned but open to the public
A space entirely dedicated to wine. It is not a cellar, but a library, with ben two thousand titles dedicated to Italian production, from the cultivation of grapes to wine shops. It was opened in the Villa Margon complex, a Ravine of Trento, and is called BBL: it is the acronym of Biblioteca Bruno Lunelli, because the collection of books is named after the Trentino who inaugurated the fortune of Ferrari bubbles and who brought his land to the knowledge of the classic method.
It was his son Franco and his nephew Marcello who wanted to enrich the Italian cultural heritage with this special library, which also includes books of a literary type and others of scientific setting. Among these, thanks also to an important legacy made by Italo Roncador, one of the major protagonists of Trentino viticulture, to Marcello Lunelli, there are also rare and difficult to find titles, as well as the most complete collection of wine guides Italian, starting with the first, published just fifty years ago (and edited by Luigi Veronelli), up to the most recent, published in 2019.
The library named after Bruno Lunelli (to whom the municipality of Trento had already dedicated, recognizing its merits, a few decades ago, a small square in the historic center of the city), even if privately owned, is open to the public: books, destined to become more and more numerous, are available to all wine lovers, to its long history and its vast world. To check the availability of a volume or to request a loan, just make a telephone booking (Lucia, 0461.912666) or an e-mail. In the link the opening times.
In Italy there is also another important collection of themed volumes: it is that, in Castagneto Carducci, province of Livorno, of Attilio Scienza, member of a family that has been producing wine for generations, who has collected, in a lifetime of work and passion, a vast library of about 15 thousand volumes on all aspects of wine culture (from technique to history, from sensory analysis to graduation theses). Also included are ancient oenology and viticulture texts. And all are available to interested students and scholars.
