27 January 2012
From stage sets to barriques. The unique wines “designed” by Cristina - Corriere della Sera
(...) “The first steps saw interpreters not of local grapes but of international varieties: merlot, pinot noir, chardonnay, semillon. With the terroir to make them unique, different from those produced elsewhere, and this obligatory choice, here as much an oxymoron as it is intriguing, will prove propaedeutic for the current evolution of Cantrina wines. Over the years Nepomuceno, the company's most awarded and best known product, will see rebo and marzemino grapes appear alongside merlot, playing more on elegance than on power. In the Rinè, the only great white, the Rhine Riesling, which is at home here, will take over from the Chardonnay and the Rosanoire, born under the banner of Libero Esercizio di Stile - the small, in-quantity experiments summarising the winery's philosophy - will become a fixed proposal, exploiting the long experience accumulated with Pinot Noir. The creativity, the game, does not stop, however: the micro-winemaking, no more than a thousand bottles at a time, continues, always dressed with labels specially designed, needless to say by whom.” (...)
