Prepotto, Colli Orientali del Friuli
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Augusta Bargilli Collection

Drawings, labels and bottles painted by hand.

A magnum painted by hand with the Madonna and Child, on a black background

Vorrei che nel mio vino qualcuno trovasse la mia anima.

I would like someone to find my soul in my wine.

Augusta

I studied art, and my wine began on paper too. This is my sketchbook: the crest and the wheel, the bottle and the colour of its capsule. And at the end, the bottles I paint by hand, one by one.

The crest

The mark comes from my family, an old Tuscan noble family whose name was originally Bargigli. There is a wheel in the crest: the same wheel that today circles my initials, on the capsules and the corks.

The Bargilli crest drawn by hand in black and grey on paper: a helmet with crown and star, three stars and a wheel, a pen beside it
The crest, drawn by hand
The painted Bargilli crest: a helmet with crown and star, three stars on blue, a red band and a wheel
The family crest
Hand drawing of the wheel with the letters AB over a red brushstroke
The wheel and the initials
The red capsule of a bottle, with the wheel and the letters AB in gold
On the capsule

The bottle

Then the whole bottle: the glass, the label in its place, the colour of the capsule. I draw the Refosco next to the Ribolla and try a white, a red and a yellow capsule.

Sketch of a bottle of Ribolla 2019, with arrows to three capsule trials: white, red and yellow
Ribolla 2019, the capsules
Sketch of two bottles, Refosco and Ribolla, with the AB labels
Refosco and Ribolla
Drawing of the Refosco 2019 bottle, with the red capsuleThe drawing
The Refosco dal peduncolo rosso bottle with today’s labelThe bottle

The painted bottles

Some bottles I paint by hand, one by one. On the dark glass I bring figures from the Renaissance and from myth, and the vine. No two are alike.

Madonna and Child

Painted on a magnum. In the photograph beside it is my mother, Maria Teresa.

  • Bottle painted with the Madonna in red and blue and the Child
  • The painted Madonna magnum next to a black-and-white photograph of a young woman sitting in a wicker chair
    Beside my mother, Maria Teresa
  • Augusta Bargilli in the vineyard, holding the painted magnum
    In the vineyard, with the magnum

Figures

Nymphs, putti, dancers, painted all around the glass.

  • Painted magnum: a female figure in a blue drape and a putto
  • Painted magnum: three nude figures, a red drape and a putto
  • Painted magnum: a nude dancer and a red drape
  • Two painted bottles: a dancer in pink and, on the other, a figure and two putti
  • Two painted bottles: a figure with a goat and a figure crowned with leaves
  • Two painted bottles: a nude figure and, on the other, a putto and a handwritten dedication

Gold on black

A later series: only a line of gold and white on the black glass. Lovers, angels, animals, the moon.

  • Black bottle painted in gold: two lovers embracing under the full moon
  • Black bottle painted in gold and white: an angel embracing a figure
  • Black bottle painted in gold and white: a nude figure beside a swan
  • Black bottle painted in gold: two figures holding up a large heart
  • Black bottle painted in solid gold: a figure curled up on itself
  • Black bottle painted in a white line: the face of a woman with long hair
  • Black bottle painted in gold and white: a nude figure with her arms above her head
  • Black bottle painted in gold and white: a classical bust
  • Black bottle painted in gold: a goat, a rooster and other animals
Bottle of Schioppettino 2023 painted by hand with a vine, the AB monogram and the words Colli Orientali del Friuli

Schioppettino 2023

Schioppettino is the native grape of Prepotto. I make very few bottles of it, and I paint each one by hand.

Gold capsule with the wheel and the letters AB

On request

I paint bottles on commission. Write to me about what you have in mind, and I will reply to you myself.

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