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Harvest 2023

posted on 22 November 2023
 

We’ve wrapped up this year’s harvest, too…

It was a year of very hard work. Bad weather dealt us repeated blows, first with heavy rains all the way through the spring and a good part of the summer, then with torrid heat in late July and early August. Nonetheless, we were successful in bringing a satisfactory crop into the cellar, both in quantity and quality. It probably won’t be the vintage of the century, but, on the other hand, we were fortunate that there were no destructive storms and successful in combatting fungal attacks brought on by excessive rains. And, yes, it was a slow, challenging harvest. What definitely helped us—much more than in previous years—was severe quality selection in the vineyard during the harvest, leaving on the vines all clusters in any way unsuited for our winemaking. Our team, composed largely of young pickers, started off in early September with the Pinot Noir for Rosanoire as usual, and we finished about a month later with Rebo for Zerdί and our Groppello red wine. In between, it was slow, hard work in repeated passes for the white grapes for Rinéit was Valtènesi, and Merlot for Nepomuceno.
Unfortunately, this year we were unable to harvest grapes for Sole di Dario, since excessive moisture and very thin grape berry skins militated against a high-quality wine.
This year’s wines, which initially seemed rough and difficult to understand, are improving now, after a few weeks, in terms of cleanness and finesse, the whites and rose’s as well as the reds. These performances lead us to think that this vintage will be characterised more by elegance and crispness rather than by power and full body. This underscores the fascinating work of the true winegrower, who is an artisan of wine and expects variability between vintages, over against the industrial type of producer, who want the wines to be identical year after year. Particularly true for those of us who farm organically is the crucial importance of intensive attention paid to work in the vineyards. That now continues in the cellar, as we pamper our new wines and anxiously monitor every single detail, to a greater degree than in vintages perhaps considered greater and easier to interpret. This year, too, we were able to take some snapshots of the harvest, that you’ll find at this link , along with reportage by Claudia Filisina.
Meet-ups:
We will not be at the Mercato dei Vignaioli Indipendenti FIVI this year, but we will participate for the first time at the Slow Wine trade fair on 25-26-27 February 2024 in Bologna.

Upcoming wine releases:

At this point in our winemaking year, we would like to warmly wish you a splendid autumn and winter season! We, too, will back off a bit and slow down, as we temporarily suspend our tastings and get out in the vineyards to begin pruning! See you in 2024!

Cristina and Diego
 

Virtual tour and new e-commerce

posted on 27 August 2021
Over the past few months, we have been working on a new project that we are now ready to launch. With the goal of cancelling geographical boundaries and reducing the distance between all you loyal wine-lovers, we have re-structured, updated, and enlarged our mygroppello platform. This virtual universe will allow you to relate to our partners abroad and to purchase what we produce at Cantrina. We also improved our tours here at the winery, which you can now book online both at www.cantrina.it and at mygroppello; for all of you Amici di Cantrina who are reading this, nothing will change, and tours will obviously remain complimentary. Just access our online calendar and come see us: we’re ready to welcome you here with our usual straightforward simplicity. For those of you farther away, and those who would like to know more about us before coming, mygroppello also has a section dedicated to a virtual tour of Cantrina, our uniquely-easy way of helping you to discover our small universe here at Cantrina.

Waiting for spring

posted on 19 February 2021
Aspettando la primavera...
We wanted to put out this brief edition of our newsletter just to let you know that, in spite of plenty of limitations, closings, and the consequent economic slowdown—which has hit our sector hard--, here at Cantrina work in the vineyards has never stopped. We have continued to prune, manure, and tend the vineyards, and in the cellar we have been working on all the new vintages preparatory to bottling. Just a few days ago, we bottled our 2020 organic rosés: Rosanoire and Valtènesi Chiaretto will be available and ready to enjoy starting in April.

Harvest 2020

posted on 5 November 2020
Warm greetings to you all! It’s already late autumn and therefore the time to draw some overall conclusions about the 2020 harvest that just ended. We mentioned in our last newsletter that in our area, and in particular for those of us who have chosen the path of farming organically, it was certainly a difficult growing year, with plenty of heavy rains, sometimes along with hail, that accompanied us from June on, almost right up to the start of harvest
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