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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.

Cantrina, target doubling - Brescia Oggi

posted on 14 June 2005
The «little» Cantrina wants to grow and become big: the first step could only be the construction of a new wine cellar, which the Bedizzole farm - run by Cristina Inganni and Diego Lavo - officially inaugurated a year and a half after the start of work with a packed wine and food event for the media, restaurateurs and insiders. (...) Cantrina believes in it, having invested 300,000 euro in a technologically advanced 420 m2 ’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, of course, for a small company like ours this is an important investment aimed at quantitative and qualitative growth».»

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.

The designer lady - The Day

posted on 17 April 2005
The Cantrina winery is a dream, shattered by tragedy, reborn in hope. Thanks to the strength and tenacity of Cristina Inganni, from interior decorator to wine expert. That beautiful old mansion overlooking the hills of the Valtènesi, surrounded by greenery, just a stone's throw from the old village and the 18th-century church, had appealed to Dario Dattoli, a Calabrian all-star, a revolutionary entrepreneur in the city's restaurant industry. It was a return to the land for him, there was a great passion for the vine, which has ancient history there. It was love. A love paid with his life, on a sad morning under the tractor, between the rows of vines, personally spreading pesticides despite working at the restaurant until late at night. A love bequeathed to Cristina together with the estate in the hamlet of Cantrina di Bedizzole. They had been together for a few years, married for one. And she? Away from Brescia, away from work, Dario's dream must continue. Dattoli had founded the Cantrina estate in ’90, in ’98 without him Cristina became one of the women of wine in the province of Brescia. And art?
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