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20 May 2021

Food and wine stories

Total intellectual freedom, close ties to his homeland: in the synthesis of a potential oxymoron, Cantrina's experience unfolds The name of the winery is borrowed from “a tiny rural village of Valtènesi located in the municipality of Bedizzole, in the Brescia hinterland of Lake Garda in Lombardy”. In fact, it is in Cantrina that Cristina Inganni and Diego Lavo live and work, the founders of this small, strictly family-run company with just under 8 hectares of land to cultivate ’on the hills of morainic origin in three different plots for a total of 45 thousand vine stocks“.

Slow Wine 2027, here are all the bottles

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There are 173 Slow Wine 2027 Bottles, 15 fewer than last year. There are 44 wineries that have earned this recognition in the seventeenth edition. But what is a Bottle in Slow Wine? The Bottle is the symbol assigned to wineries whose wines presented for tasting have expressed excellent quality.

VINUM Reading Panel – European rosé enjoyment in the glass

posted on 10 September 2026
In the latest September edition of Vinum, there is an article in which we are cited among the best European rosés.

The Mediterranean flavours of Lower Garda

posted on 3 February 2026
(...) Groppello, a red wine for fish and aperitifs. Cristina Inganni never imagined that she would become a winemaker while attending the Brera Academy in Milan, nor that she would come to live in Cantrina, a small hamlet in the municipality of Bedizzole whose profile dominates the vineyards. She did so to carry on the dream of her first husband, who died prematurely, who had planted the first vines (now nine hectares) of the Azienda Agricola Cantrina, inspired by French production and maintaining a radical idea of absolute quality. Cristina carries it on today together with Diego Lavo, her partner and second husband. Their Riviera del Garda Classico Groppello DOC (13 €) is a wine that enhances the terroir: gentle and sinuous, it is also appreciated with fish. In summer it becomes a cool aperitif.
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