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The Brescia daily dedicates an article to Azienda Agricola Cantrina, here are the most important points (...) It does not dream of being the biggest, nor the most expensive. And technologically up-to-date, but not to the point of astonishment at this. The novelty of the inauguration of the Cantrina winery's new cellar, at 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 creation is a 420-square-metre wine cellar that cost 300,000 euro. There are two large rooms, with plenty of barriques because the company offers wines that age for a long time. The entire building was buried and covered by vines, as the best do today, also to reduce the environmental impact, which is in fact very low. The new plant allows the winery to go from 500 quintals of grapes processed to 800 quintals, more than the six hectares of vineyards. (...) (...) Gardesana and recognised as such, Cantrina has always had a preference for international grape varieties, which has been the approach taken by Dario Dattoli since he founded the company in 1990. An approach that has been preserved by his wife Cristina Inganni, after an accident in the vineyard caused the founder to pass away, and refined by that excellent technician Diego Lavo, Inganni's second husband. The tiny entity is credited with having demonstrated that the Garda soil is also suitable for wines with a large structure and long ageing. Gianmichele Portieri Portieri gardesana, hitherto little explored although endowed with great potential, the cultivation of which was officially authorised last year for inclusion in the area's production specifications. “Technically, it is a cross between Merlot and Teroldego,” explains Cristina. An extremely generous vine, capable of giving wines of great colour, pronounced alcohol content, with particularly sweet tannins, on which we are betting a lot'.