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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. (...)

A woman emerges among the docs - Area Blu

posted on 7 April 2005
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.

Cantrina: outpost of tradition - Brescia Oggi

posted on 16 February 2005
Agricola Cantrina is the small outpost of Cristina Inganni and Diego Lavo, a woman of wine with a natural inclination towards art, who has decided to bet on a production policy made up of small numbers, great qualitative ambitions, and particularly significant choices such as that of renouncing, starting with the bottling of the 2004 production, the Garda DOC in favour of the Benaco Bresciano Typical Geographical Indication. «It is a decision that stems from the desire to link our production in depth to the territory, betting on a denomination that is the exclusive property of the area," explains Cristina, summarising the philosophy of a company that has always been reluctant to follow the traditional production guidelines of the area. Founded in 1990 by Dario Dattoli, a well-known Brescian restaurateur and winemaker by passion, the winery was conceived from the outset as a small centre for experimentation and the production of well-structured red wines. With the untimely death of the owner in 1998, his wife Cristina Inganni, a graduate of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, a career that began as a set designer and interior decorator, decided to continue the singular oenological adventure, thanks also to her meeting with the agrarian expert, Diego Lavo: an encounter that not only resulted in marriage in 2000, but also opened a new chapter in the history of Cantrina.
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