Troglia Bottlings
of Cappellano Barolo and Barbaresco
Giovanni Troglia is a wine merchant in Turin who bottles a wide range of Northern Italian wines under his own label.
During the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, G. Troglia bottled many Cappellano's wines.
So far, I have seen them in vintages ranging from 1954 through 1979.
He mostly used these weird-shaped bottles like these:
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Note that the 2 bottles on the left are Ghemme and Sizzano, not Barolo. The bottle on the right is Cappellano Barolo.
These types of bottles were more commonly used in Novara Hills wine region of Northern Piedmont with wines
such as Ghemme, Gattinara, and Sizzano.
One notable producer who still uses bottles similar to these is
Travaglini who uses these for their Gattinara.
See the bottom of this page in particular.
I do not know for sure that every such odd bottle of Cappellano was bottled by Troglia, but so far that seems to be the case.
In some cases there are larger sizes of Troglia bottlings, but (perhaps not surprisingly) in odd sizes such as
2.1 liters and 3.8 liters.
Other Troglia Bottlings
of Cappellano Barolo and Barbaresco
Troglia also used some bottles which are a bit more normal such as these:
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In these Cappellano pages, I refer to all such bottlings as Troglia bottlings
.
Wasserman on Troglia
In their important book
[Italy's Noble Red Wines, Sheldon and Pauline Wasserman, Macmillan, 2nd Edition, 1991.],
the Wassermans write,
Giovanni Troglia, a wine merchant in Torino, sells under its label Barolo and Barbaresco,
and a number of other Piedmontese wines, packaged in bizarre shaped bottles.
The wines are often just as bizarre.
Oxidized wines, in fact, are quite common from them.
We found their wines from the 1960s better than those from the more recent vintages.
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