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Bengodii - of culture and other pleasures
18 February 2021

Bengodii - of culture and other pleasures - UN ROSA, È UN ROSA, È UN ROSA... VALTÈNESI

In particular, this one from Cantrina winery, a company from Bedizzole (BS), is a very simple pink, as if just blooming, very faint, a watercoloured carmine. It somehow announces the barely suffused scents of small, ripening red fruits, slow notes of fresh flowers and embraces some very evanescent scents that briefly touch me. This is a pink Valtènesi, made only from Groppello grapes. Six hours of maceration on the skins: just the right amount to obtain a very delicate wine (too much always cripples everywhere). A wine without exaggerated pretensions, pleasant to drink, and therefore always or in any case; thanks to its fine acidity and slender yet full body, it goes well with a mixed board in friendship, or with a not too exaggerated pasta dish, but also with a refined fish dinner. A very simple wine, yet endowed with great versatility. Moreover, it is a wine that I like a lot, both because it has a screw cap (a courageous choice, at least at the time, for a company from the hinterland of Brescia and which sells mainly in Italy) and because of its artistically appealing labels.

There is the air of Lake Garda in the fine wines of Cantrina - Eco di Bergamo

posted on 4 July 2014
«Free exercise in style», is how Cristina Inganni and Diego Lavo sum up their way of interpreting the craft of winemaking. They do this in Cantrina, a tiny hamlet in the municipality of Bedizzole, a western offshoot of the morainic hills surrounding the Brescia side of Lake Garda. From here the lake cannot be seen, but the effect on the climate is still felt, so much so that it is included in the territory protected by the regulations of the new Valtènesi DOC. But denomination aside, it is precisely that «free exercise in style» in interpretation that distinguishes the wines of Cantrina, which are born from the six hectares of vines cultivated with painstaking care by Diego Lavo (by the way, they are in the process of «converting» to organic). (...)

Brescia protagonist at the turning point Vinitaly - Brescia Oggi

posted on 8 April 2014
(...) Although I still believe that Vinitaly is not the right event for very small niche companies like mine, I believe that when participation is organised by a consortium, it becomes interesting to be there because the territory is more valuable than the individual company,' says Cristina Inganni of Cantrina in Bedizzole. However, I am not here with a commercial approach, but to make an investment in terms of public relations and networking. (...)

Nepomuceno is a perfect wine - La Stampa

posted on 20 March 2014
“Here in Valtènesi you can feel the air of Lake Garda and Cristina has adopted the philosophy of «free exercise of style»: in the vineyard and in the cellar. In the 1990s, the first experiments were carried out in an already existing pinot noir vineyard, to grow to today's six hectares under vine (30 thousand bottles). Now, the wine that amazed me is called Nepomuceno, a blend of merlot (70%) rebo and marzemino, fermented in steel for about 15 days and aged for 24 months in barriques and tonneaux. It has an impenetrable ruby colour, and on the nose you can smell the juices of small red fruits. But what is striking is the softness on the palate, which then opens up with finely spiced fresh notes, always maintaining a perfect, spectacular roundness.’
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