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9 June 2005

Garda celebrates compact - Giornale di Brescia

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'.

Cantrina a mini Burgundy - Giornale di Brescia

posted on 25 October 2005
When it was founded in the 1990s, it wanted to be a little corner of the beloved (and envied) Bourgogne stolen from the French and transplanted to the Bedizzole countryside. ’Mission impossible«, those in the know will say, wrinkling their noses. And yet the results of this unusual, tiny Garda winery are all there to be tasted, swirling the glass to soften the aggression of the tannins. The plenty of sunshine that favours Cantrina di Bedizzole and the consequent narrow temperature range, the low altitude, do not prevent the wines of the Cantrina winery from making a splendid impression. Merit perhaps goes to the »vine by vine, bunch by bunch« care given to the vines and a vinification done substantially »by hand« in the tiny cellar that borders the living room of the house. Thus we happen to taste a Pinot Noir in purity with an imposing structure and very typical character (it is called Corteccio), no less surprising is the white Riné (like the hills behind the winery) that overflows with scents of fruit and vanilla.

The Right Match - The Arena of Verona

posted on 25 October 2005
With a high fat content, there is a need for an important wine. Oh, God, every rule has its exceptions (and in this case we suggest to transgressors a well-structured white) but personally we prefer a mature, harmonious red wine with good structure. Since every like loves its like, if the tripe is Florentine, accompany it with a Tuscan wine, Chianti DOCG; Barco Reale Carmignano DOC; excellent Pinot Noir Villa Bagnolo by Marchesi Pancrazi and Birbone by Fattoria Barbi di Montalcino. (...) Busecca Milanese goes well with an Oltrepò Pavese sangue di Giuda and, to top it all off, one of the best Merlots in Italy, NEPOMUCENO 2001 from Cantrina di Bedizzole in the province of Brescia.

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».»
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