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3 February 2026

The Mediterranean flavours of Lower Garda

(...) Groppello, a red wine for fish and aperitifs.

Cristina Inganni never imagined that she would become a winegrower while attending the Brera Academy in Milan, nor that she would come to live in Cantrina, a small hamlet in the municipality of Bedizzole whose profile dominates the vineyards. She did so to carry on the dream of her first husband, who died prematurely, who had planted the first vines (now nine hectares) of the Azienda Agricola Cantrina, inspired by French production and maintaining a radical idea of absolute quality. Cristina carries it on today together with Diego Lavo, her partner and second husband. Their Riviera del Garda Classico Groppello DOC (13 €) is a wine that enhances the terroir: gentle and sinuous, it is also appreciated with fish. In summer it becomes a cool aperitif.  

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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».»

Garda celebrates compact - Giornale di Brescia

posted on 9 June 2005
It does not dream of being the biggest, nor the most expensive. And technologically up-to-date, but not to the point of astonishment. The novelty of the inauguration of the Cantrina winery's new cellar, in 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 construction is a 420-square-metre wine cellar costing 300 thousand euros.

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?
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