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(...) Even the very special label, with its intersection of hand-drawn geometric designs, the name of the wine, Rosanoire, written in block letters in the bottom right-hand corner, and a name, Cristina Inganni, starting with the final e and rising perpendicularly, makes it clear that this rosé has all the hallmarks of heterogeneity. One only has to find out about the winery, which is called Cantrina, the name of the small hamlet in the rural village of Bedizzole, western offshoot of the morainic hills that surround the Brescia side of Lake Garda, to immediately discover that making wine, for Cristina Inganni (the Cristina of the label mentioned above) and Diego Lavo, is nothing other than a “free exercise in style”. Which translates into the wine labels, edited by Cristina, who is very busy not only in her own cellar, but in the Valtènesi Consortium, in the association Women of Wine, in the’Independent Winegrowers Association, but above all in their particular stylistics, in their desire to convey “the character of the territory of origin and of the people who make it”, and to give the wines an absolutely creative and consequently unique imprint. Of course, Cristina and Diego have also been making an excellent Garda Classico for some years now, using the historic grape of their area, Groppello, but their “exercises in style” are the expression of a strictly family-run production reality, active since 1999, which counts on a little less than 6 hectares of land on hills of morainic origin in two different plots for a total of 33 thousand vine stocks, are rather called Riné, a cuvée of Riesling, Chardonnay and Incrocio Manzoni, or Zerdì, which is a Rebo in purity, or Nepomuceno, a reasoned mix of Merlot Rebo and Marzemino. (...) (...) And on the palate, rich in character, fresh, juicy, savoury and just the right amount of roundness, with a wonderful balance between sweetness of fruit, freshness and acid backbone, very pleasant and persistent, perfect in combination with the fish dishes of the magnificent Garda area, whose proximity gives the wine a very special style. And makes it a perfectly successful “exercise in style”. (...) Read the full article.