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16 February 2005

Cantrina: outpost of tradition - Brescia Oggi

Bresciaoggi describes Azienda Agricola Cantrina in an article, here are the most important points: Cantrina - outpost of tradition Production reaches 15 thousand bottles. Three hundred thousand euro for a 420sqm eco-structure. (...) 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. (...) Cristina Inganni's desire to indissolubly link Cantrina wines to the territory, in order to express their full potential, has led to constant research into the potential of the estate's vineyard and the pedo-climatic characteristics of the Bedizzole area, a constantly evolving activity that will soon result in some new products. The first to arrive on the market will be Zerdi, vintage 2003, a red wine that bets on the potential of Rebo, a vine with great potential whose cultivation was officially authorised last year for inclusion in the area's production specifications. »Technically, it is a cross between Merlot and Teroldego, explains Diego Lavo. It is an extremely generous vine, capable of giving wines of great colour, pronounced alcohol content and particularly sweet tannins. It is considered an improving vine, and we are focusing on it because among the authorised vines in the area, it is the one that has given the most satisfaction in terms of structure, allowing us not to concentrate solely on international varieties'. Diego and Cristina also have another novelty in the pipeline: it is called Eretico, and is a rare experiment in Pinot Noir raisin wine made possible by the exceptional climatic conditions that marked the 2003 harvest. It will be released in 2-3 years: and it might even remain a unique specimen.

Free Exercise in Style - Environment Europe

posted on 12 March 2009
Cantrina is a small hamlet in the Valtènesi valley that gives its name to the small winery where Cristina Inganni and Diego Lavo work in the vineyard and cellar. They are convinced that wine must express personality, uniqueness and be able to speak of its territory of origin. The soils on which the winery is located yield structured wines with good alcohol content, good minerality and high acidity. Long-lived wines that are born with natural respect for the interaction between soil and vineyard. (...)

Cristina Inganni - Lands

posted on 1 March 2009
THE STYLE OF AN ENTREPRENEUR IN THE WINE INDUSTRY, WHO DOES NOT FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE MARKET, BUT PRODUCES WHAT SHE LIKES BEST, RELYING ON HER OWN ABILITIES. It is easy to fall into banality or rhetoric. A woman entrepreneur, a woman who “makes” wine, and give rise to a whole series of clichés, even if ennobled by the best of intentions. The antidote, however, is just as easy to find: it is enough to listen to Cristina Inganni as she talks about her projects, so that one focuses on the substance, forgetting formalism. In a phase of Italian viticulture in which the search for indigenous grape varieties is almost exploding, her choices seem, at first glance, to go against the tide: she achieves great results with Sauvignon, Semillon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Riesling ... But the answer is immediate: “In my opinion, it is easier to identify the “terroir”, the identity of the territory, in international vines,“ as happens with people who come from distant countries to places that, little by little, transform them, adding, modifying traits and ways until they become something unique, hybrids charged with a singular charm. And consideration does not clash with typicality, indeed “native vines are a heritage, a heritage to be protected”, but it is from confrontation, from the plurality of choices that we can enrich the world of wine.

Proudly Italian Bordeaux - Giornale di Brescia

posted on 29 November 2008
And the Brescians? Few but they were there and they did not disfigure at all. The rather scattered presentation of wines did not allow us to find them all. Presenting their products, however, were Cristina Inganni with her award-winning Nepomuceno and Giovanna Prandini with the brand new Leonatus. Both are pure Merlot. Fratelli Berlucchi, represented by oenologist Casare Ferrari, was there with Casa delle colonne (where the Cabernet is only Franc), but next to it we found a Deressi from Majolini that has boundless elegance and a Nero d'Ombra from Mirabella that is just as elegant, but far too austere. The wineries produce very little of it and therefore speak little of it. A little more is Barone Pizzini's San Carlo while again very little is San Giovanni's Cabernet Montezalto.
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