Renovate and regenerate, returning to the place where it all began, way back in 1882. The new Maison Massucco. “This space represents a piece of family history. But it’s also a project to redevelop a former industrial area. Because it was here, where tranquillity now reigns, that our forge was based,” explains Alberto Massucco when presenting his new maison in Castellamonte, in the Canavese area of Piedmont, along the street named after his father Luigi, a proud forger.
Alberto Massucco Unveils the New Maison Massucco
Massucco – a winegrower with a metalworking vocation – selects and imports champagne, owns vineyards in Champagne, produces champagne, and can now count on a proper headquarters. His Maison isn’t a place of winemaking, but a welcoming and hospitable “home”. An airy and luxurious residence where everything is a seamless bridge between Italy and France, past and future, genius loci and other places, substance and imagination, light and half-light, wood and stone, bricks and river pebbles, iron and the pearl-like bubbles of champagne.
Maison Massucco, the House of Champagne
These walls are home to the Cave du propriétaire, along with the Cave AMC – the repository of Alberto Massucco Champagne labels – the Cave des Vignerons (with collections of the récoltant manipulants Jean-Philippe Trousset, Rochet-Bocart, Gallois-Bouché, Bonnevie Bocart and Les Fa’Bulleuses) and a Caveau, sealed by a gate, evoking the sumptuous entrances of French chateaux. There is also a kitchen (designed with chef Matteo Baronetto), tasting rooms and the Salone delle Feste, complete with a sculptural ring-table recalling the age-old forge.
And to raise the curtain on Maison Massucco? An official toast with a limited-edition champagne: L’Ouverture, a Blanc de Blancs grand cru. Only chardonnay. Only 300 magnums. Only brilliance.
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Images courtesy Alberto Massucco
In partnership with Maison Massucco
