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2 October 2009

The Bagoss, the Heretic and the Hamburger - Paperogiallo.net

Stefano Bonilli in his blog recounts a dinner at Villa Fiordaliso where he tasted Eretico: here are the most important points: (...) The other evening at dinner by the lake, a warm and pleasant evening, so much so that we were eating outside, some Bagoss and a bottle of Eretico from the Cantrina winery arrived on the table. It is a pinot noir raisin wine... ugh, a pinot noir raisin wine? But yes, a wine, pinot noir, which certainly doesn't have the image of a raisin wine and which makes a great impression because you expect it to be sweet, but instead... it has residual sugar, no doubt about it, but it is really a great wine-wine with a dark violet colour that will be even better as it matures. The Villa Fiordaliso sommelier, a good man, who chooses his wines one by one and knows how to tell without tediousness, brought out the Eretico to take us on unusual journeys and he really nailed it.

Obviously we were not there for the Heretic but for the cuisine of Riccardo Camanini, who of Villa Fiordaliso has been the cook for 12 years. (...)

 

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Uncorked Bottles - Internet Gourmet

posted on 10 September 2007
Heretic 2003 Cantrina Heretic, just heretic. When you tell people it's a pinot noir raisin wine, they cringe. Then they taste it and... It took Cristina Inganni's winemaking extremism to come up with such a wine. Which is the child of her vintage: a very hot 2003. And since they have quite a lot of pinot noir at Cantrina, a contradina in the extreme hinterland of Lake Garda in the Brescia area, and the grapes were over-ripe, Cristina decided to dare the unthinkable. And so, a red wine of absolute heresy was born. A single barrique. Then finished in a few 0.375 litre bottles.

About Wine - My Wine Professional

posted on 12 January 2007
Her first love was art, then, to continue her husband's work, she dedicated herself completely to wine. My two little brats, Lorenzo and Tommaso, move naturally into this world, they grow into it. The way I got into it, on the other hand, is very different». First the Academy of Fine Arts, then a diploma as set designer: Cristina Inganni's first love was art, that for wine only came later. «My first husband, Dario Dattoli, had founded this winery in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was he who initiated me into this world». Although she began to approach wine by marriage, Cristina continued to work in the artistic field, as an interior decorator, until, in 1998, her life received a sudden jolt. «My husband passed away suddenly during the summer, just before the grape harvest,» Cristina recalls.

Cantrina is the only one among the “extremes” - Brescia Oggi

posted on 10 November 2006
Garda Classico has been selected as one of the “Extreme Wines” of the Merano Wine Festival: the event, dedicated to the top national production, staged from tomorrow to Monday 13 November in the Kurkhaus, has included the Cantrina di Bedizzole winery (the only Brescian one) among the companies included in the section ’wines produced under extreme conditions in terms of altitude, climate, soil and vinification. Cantrina, however, will not be the only one to represent the Province in the “Top Selected“ section that, according to the Wine Festival's strict criteria, brings together the best of the national wine scene. Lombardy is represented by six wineries, five of which are Brescian, namely the Franciacorta Bellavista, Cà dl Bosco, il Mosnel, Monte Rosa, as well as Cà dei Frati representing Lugana.
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