The world's smallest winery is selling a $5,000 bottle of wine, but it doesn't want you to drink it

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The world's smallest winery is selling a $5,000 bottle of wine, but it
The world's smallest winery sells a bottle of wine for $5,000

Tullio Masoni makes some of the most exclusive wines in the world, but he doesn't want you to drink it.

A successful entrepreneur, art collector and former investment banker, he created what he says is the world's smallest vineyard atop a 16th-century palace in the heart of Reggio Emilia. The city is famous as the birthplace of the "tricolor" Italian national flag, writes CNN.

The world's smallest winery is selling a $5,000 bottle of wine, but it
Tullio Masoni

Është gjithashtu i vendosur midis Parmës dhe Modenës, në një copë toke që i ka dhënë Italisë disa nga eksportet e saj më të njohura, duke përfshirë supermakinat Ferrari dhe Lamborghini dhe produktet kryesore të kuzhinës si lazanja, tortelini, Prosciutto di Parma dhe Ragù alla Bolognese.

The world's smallest winery is selling a $5,000 bottle of wine, but it

Që vera e Masonit nuk përfundon në shumë tavolina me ushqime të tilla, ndoshta ka kuptim kur merren parasysh fillimet e saj. Ai e rrit rrushin e tij në çatinë e Via Mari 10, adresa e ndërtesës dhe emri i vetë verës, një vend i njohur sepse në 1859 u vizitua nga Giuseppe Garibaldi, revolucionari që ndihmoi në bashkimin e Italisë.

"My father was involved in wine production," he said in a telephone interview. "I inherited a real vineyard in the countryside around Reggio Emilia, but when I looked at the books, I realized that I would have spent more money on it than I would have earned, so I sold it."

The world's smallest winery is selling a $5,000 bottle of wine, but it

"However, 20 years later I regretted it, so I made a mini-vineyard myself."

At just over 200 square meters, Via Mari 10 yields just 29 bottles of red wine a year, which Mason then prices at €5,000 each. The bottles are not sold in a wine shop, but in an art gallery, Bonioni Arte, just a few blocks away.

"My wine is a form of artistic expression, a philosophical provocation, something to keep in your living room so you can talk about it with your friends and tell them about the madman who put a vineyard on the roof his", says Masoni.

The world's smallest winery is selling a $5,000 bottle of wine, but it

He compares his urban vineyard to French artist Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, an actual bicycle wheel that he placed on a bench in his Paris studio in 1913.

"If you see a bicycle wheel in the living room and not in a repair shop, you realize how beautiful it is," Mason said. “My vineyard is like this: it is unexpected; stimulates the brain; sparks new thoughts".



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