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14 June 2005

Cantrina, target doubling - Brescia Oggi

Bresciaoggi describes in an article the new winery of Azienda Agricola Cantrina, here are the highlights: Cantrina, goal doubled. (...) The «little» Cantrina wants to grow and become big: the first step could only be the construction of a new winery, which the Bedizzole-based farm - run by Cristina Inganni and Diego Lavo - officially inaugurated a year and a half after work began with a packed food and wine event for the media, restaurateurs and those in the trade. (...) (...) Cantrina believes in this, having invested 300,000 euro in a technologically advanced 420 square metre ’ecostructure«, which, in order to take advantage of the drop production process, was completely buried and subsequently covered by a replanted vineyard. »One of the main objectives was to reduce the environmental impact to a minimum,« said Cristina Inganni, »although, obviously, for a small company like ours this is an important investment aimed at quantitative and qualitative growth. Divided into three distinct areas (grape processing, ageing and storage), the new cellar has the capacity to process a potential load of grapes of up to 800 quintals, compared to the 500 or so that Cantrina currently produces on the six hectares of a vineyard that is now fully operational. The facility could enable the company's production to soon reach the target of 35 thousand bottles, which would double the current production, which is expected to reach 20 thousand in 2005. This is also thanks to an ageing area that could house up to 150 barriques (there are currently a hundred or so), which is particularly strategic for a rather ambitious and atypical company in the Garda scenario, whose wines are for the most part aged in wood, with rather long maturation times: it should be remembered that «Corteccio» and «Nepomuceno», the company's two «flagships», are proposed with 4-5 years of ageing; and that the less structured types, such as the white Riné and the red Zerdi, are in any case released two years after the harvest. (...)

Cantrina a mini Burgundy - Giornale di Brescia

posted on 25 October 2005
When it was founded in the 1990s, it wanted to be a little corner of the beloved (and envied) Bourgogne stolen from the French and transplanted to the Bedizzole countryside. ’Mission impossible«, those in the know will say, wrinkling their noses. And yet the results of this unusual, tiny Garda winery are all there to be tasted, swirling the glass to soften the aggression of the tannins. The plenty of sunshine that favours Cantrina di Bedizzole and the consequent narrow temperature range, the low altitude, do not prevent the wines of the Cantrina winery from making a splendid impression. Merit perhaps goes to the »vine by vine, bunch by bunch« care given to the vines and a vinification done substantially »by hand« in the tiny cellar that borders the living room of the house. Thus we happen to taste a Pinot Noir in purity with an imposing structure and very typical character (it is called Corteccio), no less surprising is the white Riné (like the hills behind the winery) that overflows with scents of fruit and vanilla.

The Right Match - The Arena of Verona

posted on 25 October 2005
With a high fat content, there is a need for an important wine. Oh, God, every rule has its exceptions (and in this case we suggest to transgressors a well-structured white) but personally we prefer a mature, harmonious red wine with good structure. Since every like loves its like, if the tripe is Florentine, accompany it with a Tuscan wine, Chianti DOCG; Barco Reale Carmignano DOC; excellent Pinot Noir Villa Bagnolo by Marchesi Pancrazi and Birbone by Fattoria Barbi di Montalcino. (...) Busecca Milanese goes well with an Oltrepò Pavese sangue di Giuda and, to top it all off, one of the best Merlots in Italy, NEPOMUCENO 2001 from Cantrina di Bedizzole in the province of Brescia.

Garda celebrates compact - Giornale di Brescia

posted on 9 June 2005
It does not dream of being the biggest, nor the most expensive. And technologically up-to-date, but not to the point of astonishment. The novelty of the inauguration of the Cantrina winery's new cellar, in Cantrina di Bedizzole, is the large number of friends, winegrowers, restaurateurs and tour operators. Several hundred people attended the festive inauguration on Tuesday evening, more than the small winery could hold. The Garda wine industry has rallied around the new entrepreneurial initiative and Cristina Inganni with evident satisfaction for a growth in the area that, slowly, seems close to taking off. A take-off that relies on the quality on which Cantrina, in a small way, leveraged before others believed in it with a production, to tell the truth, far removed from the area's traditional one, but certainly full of aspirations to emerge. The new construction is a 420-square-metre wine cellar costing 300 thousand euros.
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