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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'.

The designer lady - The Day

posted on 17 April 2005
The Cantrina winery is a dream, shattered by tragedy, reborn in hope. Thanks to the strength and tenacity of Cristina Inganni, from interior decorator to wine expert. That beautiful old mansion overlooking the hills of the Valtènesi, surrounded by greenery, just a stone's throw from the old village and the 18th-century church, had appealed to Dario Dattoli, a Calabrian all-star, a revolutionary entrepreneur in the city's restaurant industry. It was a return to the land for him, there was a great passion for the vine, which has ancient history there. It was love. A love paid with his life, on a sad morning under the tractor, between the rows of vines, personally spreading pesticides despite working at the restaurant until late at night. A love bequeathed to Cristina together with the estate in the hamlet of Cantrina di Bedizzole. They had been together for a few years, married for one. And she? Away from Brescia, away from work, Dario's dream must continue. Dattoli had founded the Cantrina estate in ’90, in ’98 without him Cristina became one of the women of wine in the province of Brescia. And art?

A good glass in Bedizzole - Orobie

posted on 12 April 2005
Cantrina: this is not a misprint, it is spelt just like that with an 'r'; it is the name of a hamlet of Bedizzole which, as chance would have it, was once famous precisely for its wine cellars. A pleasant place on the morainic hills sloping down towards Lake Garda, whose beneficial influences can be enjoyed right up here. The Cantrina winery was founded in 1990 thanks to Dario Dattoli, an enterprising character in the Brescian restaurant industry, owner of several establishments in the city, who literally fell in love with wine and decided to produce it himself with the help of his partner Cristina Inganni, who on the other hand graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Supported by the advice of internationally renowned experts, Dattoli planted different varieties of vines, the most suitable for the type of climate and soil, on a total area of around six hectares until 1998. After Dattoli's untimely death in an accident, it was Cristina Inganni who continued along this path, assisted by Diego Lavo, an agricultural expert and wine expert, as well as an experienced mountaineer.

Cantrina di Bedizzole in the front row at the debutante ball at Vinitaly - Giornale di Brescia

posted on 9 April 2005
(...) He made us taste a wine called Eretico on the day of the Pope's funeral, but any less than pious intention must be firmly denied. Eretico adheres to the rules of oenology and is a Pinot Noir passito produced as a trial in that incredible year for heat and drought that was 2003. The experiment is intriguing and the result even more so. To be tried again. Proposing the Eretico wine is the Cantrina winery, which is making its debut at Vinitaly in a new, aggressive, communicative guise. The product, for those who could find Cantrina di Bedizzole, was already there. Cristina Inganni gloats about her new role and the new attention, which took the form of interested business contacts at Vinitaly. (...)
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