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1 July 2009

Exercise in Style - Golf for Passion

(...) Cantrina, the village of Valtenesi, gives its name to the winery where Cristina Inganni and Diego Lavo work in the vineyard and cellar, 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. Cantrina (www.cantrina.it) is dedicated to the production of medium to long ageing wines, mostly breaking away from the production specifications of local DOC wines to obtain greater freedom of action on cellar choices, which also vary according to the vintage. The only exception is the recently introduced Groppello, a fitting tribute to the area's typical grape variety. Nepomuceno is the cellar's flagship wine: IGT Benaco bresciano Rosso is a Merlot-based wine characterised by the presence of small quantities of Marzemino and Robo, which derives its distinctiveness from the over-ripening “in the loft” of part of the selected grapes. Softness and velvety sensations in a wine that nevertheless has great character and structure, characteristics that best represent the expression of Cantrina's “Free Exercise in Style” production philosophy. Cristina explains: “free because I like to be creative, exercise because I call my wines exercises, style because everyone has their own”.

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.

Cantrina makes it three at the “Merlot d'Italia” - Brescia Oggi

posted on 10 October 2008
Cantrina triumphs again at Aldeno and opens up to the «autochthonous»: the Bedizzole winery, managed by Cristina Inganni with her husband Diego Lavo, won for the third consecutive time the title of «best IGT label of previous vintages» at the Mostra dei Merlot d'Italia in Aldeno (Tn), an increasingly prestigious event dedicated exclusively to this prestigious grape variety. The award went to «Nepomuceno 2004», the flagship label of this small winery that for years has been distinguishing itself for a very special approach to the viticulture of the area, focused above all on the nuances and characteristics that the unique Valtenesi terroir can offer to the «repertoire» of great international wines.
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