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4 July 2014

There is the air of Lake Garda in the fine wines of Cantrina - Eco di Bergamo

«Free exercise in style», is how Cristina Inganni and Diego Lavo sum up their way of interpreting the craft of winemaking. They do this in Cantrina, a tiny hamlet in the municipality of Bedizzole, a western offshoot of the morainic hills surrounding the Brescia side of Lake Garda. From here the lake cannot be seen, but the effect on the climate is still felt, so much so that it is included in the territory protected by the regulations of the new Valtènesi DOC. But denomination aside, it is precisely that «free exercise in style» in interpretation that distinguishes the wines of Cantrina, which are born from the six hectares of vines cultivated with painstaking care by Diego Lavo (by the way, they are in the process of «converting» to organic). (...) (...) In the cellar - and this is where Cristina Inganni's taste comes into play even more than the oenological technique - these characteristics are indulged with the aim of obtaining wines that are respectful of their origin, integral, balanced, in a word true. And that they have a virtue that the years of the spasmodic search for concentrations has been guiltily forgotten by many: a drinkability that is not easy but pleasant, suave to use an obsolete term but which renders the idea well. The highest expression of this approach can be found in Valtènesi's most representative wine, Groppello. A red wine that expresses its best characteristics through its fruity aromas and decisive yet graceful and fresh body. It goes up in structure with the Zerdì, a red wine based on Rebo (a vine born from a cross between Merlot and Teroldego) and reaches the top with the Nepomuceno, a powerful and long-lived red wine based on Merlot with late ripening and partial drying of the grapes (currently on the market the 2008 vintage). In our experience, the white Rinè, made from a blend of three grapes: Riesling and Incrocio Manzoni vinified only in steel, plus the addition of Chardonnay fermented and aged in barriques, deserves praise. And what about Dario's Sole, named after the man who had the intuition to bring Cantrina to life? It is a nectar that has nothing to envy from the best representatives of the category. (...)

Free Exercise in Style - Environment Europe

posted on 12 March 2009
Cantrina is a small hamlet in the Valtènesi valley that gives its name to the small winery where Cristina Inganni and Diego Lavo work in the vineyard and cellar. They are convinced that wine must express personality, uniqueness and be able to speak of its territory of origin. The soils on which the winery is located yield structured wines with good alcohol content, good minerality and high acidity. Long-lived wines that are born with natural respect for the interaction between soil and vineyard. (...)

Cristina Inganni - Lands

posted on 1 March 2009
THE STYLE OF AN ENTREPRENEUR IN THE WINE INDUSTRY, WHO DOES NOT FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE MARKET, BUT PRODUCES WHAT SHE LIKES BEST, RELYING ON HER OWN ABILITIES. It is easy to fall into banality or rhetoric. A woman entrepreneur, a woman who “makes” wine, and give rise to a whole series of clichés, even if ennobled by the best of intentions. The antidote, however, is just as easy to find: it is enough to listen to Cristina Inganni as she talks about her projects, so that one focuses on the substance, forgetting formalism. In a phase of Italian viticulture in which the search for indigenous grape varieties is almost exploding, her choices seem, at first glance, to go against the tide: she achieves great results with Sauvignon, Semillon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Riesling ... But the answer is immediate: “In my opinion, it is easier to identify the “terroir”, the identity of the territory, in international vines,“ as happens with people who come from distant countries to places that, little by little, transform them, adding, modifying traits and ways until they become something unique, hybrids charged with a singular charm. And consideration does not clash with typicality, indeed “native vines are a heritage, a heritage to be protected”, but it is from confrontation, from the plurality of choices that we can enrich the world of wine.

Proudly Italian Bordeaux - Giornale di Brescia

posted on 29 November 2008
And the Brescians? Few but they were there and they did not disfigure at all. The rather scattered presentation of wines did not allow us to find them all. Presenting their products, however, were Cristina Inganni with her award-winning Nepomuceno and Giovanna Prandini with the brand new Leonatus. Both are pure Merlot. Fratelli Berlucchi, represented by oenologist Casare Ferrari, was there with Casa delle colonne (where the Cabernet is only Franc), but next to it we found a Deressi from Majolini that has boundless elegance and a Nero d'Ombra from Mirabella that is just as elegant, but far too austere. The wineries produce very little of it and therefore speak little of it. A little more is Barone Pizzini's San Carlo while again very little is San Giovanni's Cabernet Montezalto.
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