The Garbellotto story began in 1775 when Giuseppe Garbellotto opened a carpenter’s workshop, where he also produced wine casks and barrels. He eventually passed the firm on to his son Pietro, and nephew Augusto Emilio. Business flourished throughout the 1800s, so much so that Karl of Hapsburg, the last Emperor of Austria, commissioned Garbellotto to renovate the wine cellar of his wife, Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma. The latest generation of Garbellotto coopers have had the satisfaction of two mentions in the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest barrels in the world.