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Area Blu dedicates an article “Among the docs a woman emerges” to women in wine including Cristina Inganni, here are the significant points: The 2005 Brescianità Award for commitment to viticulture will be presented at Vinitaly. One woman stands out among the docs Her name is Cristina Inganni and she is the leader of the Cantrina winery, one of the most unique wineries in the Garda area. (...) From Lake Garda comes the emerging female face of the Brescia wine scene: a producer whose commitment has been recognised by the jury of journalists and cultural personalities appointed by the Brescia Province Agriculture Department to award the traditional “Brescianity Awards” for 2005. Cristina Inganni, at the helm together with her husband Diego Lavo of the Cantrina farm in Bedizzole. She has been awarded not only as one of the most vital and interesting emerging personalities on the Brescia agricultural scene, but also because she is the protagonist of a highly singular entrepreneurial adventure, aimed not so much and not only at the pursuit of quality, but also and above all at expressing a new conception of the territory.(...) (...) He has been able to carve out his own space in the “pink avalanche” of Brescian winegrowing, flanking faces that are now widely known nationwide such as those of Pia Berlucchi, Maddalena Bersi Serlini or Cristina Ziliani. In just a few years, Cantrina, the farm that Cristina has been running since 1998, has made its way into the consideration of wine experts and specialised guides thanks to a production philosophy that is certainly attentive to the prerogatives of the area's typical characteristics, even if it is decidedly not aligned with local production traditions. A small niche reality, strictly family-run, which has set itself the goal of exalting the company's particularities by customising its products as much as possible. “Our aim is to demonstrate that the Garda area of Brescia is also a land where it is possible to produce wines with structure but elegance, in tune with the typicality of the territory and destined for medium-long ageing, explains Cristina. And it is precisely in order to identify ourselves more closely with the territory that we decided, starting with the 2004 bottlings, to renounce the Garda DOC in order to use exclusively the Indicazione Geografica Tipica Benaco Bresciano, which belongs exclusively to our area,” she explains. The consequence of these particular choices, of rigorous research work carried out both in the vineyard and in the cellar, can be read in the technical characteristics of the two “leading” Cantrina wines, both currently on the market in the 2000 vintage: Nepomuceno is a pure Merlot, 40 hectolitres yield per hectare, aged in barriques and tonneaux for 24 months; Corteccio, on the other hand, is a Pinot Noir, also pure, no more than 30 hectolitres per hectare, fermented in new 50% barriques where it matures for 12 months before further ageing in the bottle. These are very special products, which in 2005 will be joined by the absolutely new Zerdi, vintage 2003, a red that bets heavily on the potential of Rebo, a grape variety typical of the area.