Vino Vino dal 1931
Nine hundred labels from all over Italy and the world where cheeses were once aged. Since 1921.
Here, the wines rest on original and functional shelves made from old concrete manhole covers. In the window and on the walls, the bottles are displayed on antique and artistic metal stands from a Milanese furniture factory that once made bed springs. Until 1870, Vino Vino was a casera, a warehouse for maturing cheeses brought from the Lodi area across the Naviglio. The old wooden planks on which the dairy products were aged have housed prized bottles since 1871. The atmosphere in the cellar is almost sacred: the soft lighting, the enormous barrel in the background, the vault so low that visitors are forced to bend down to admire what was once a typical Piedmontese cellar. In 1921, Sebastiano Gaviglio became the “boy” in the wine shop that sold Piedmontese wines, and in 1925, he became the owner of the business.
In the 1950s, his three children – Giuseppe, Luigi, and Pierina – changed the nature of the premises, specializing exclusively in take-away sales. Andrea, the son of Nora and Giuseppe, joined his parents in 2000 and thus represents the third generation of the Gaviglio family. The wines are selected with particular attention to small agricultural producers and through constant research, which has led the Gaviglio family to affix a special gold seal to certain bottles, certifying an “accurate selection carried out at the places of production, with the aim of offering the highest expression of typicity and quality.” Today, the shop offers more than 900 wine labels from all over Italy and the world, as well as around 700 types of spirits, including rum, whisky, grappa, cognac, armagnac, gin, and vodka.