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26 October 2007

I Vigneti della Cantrina - Informa Cibo

This is how Informa Cibo describes Azienda Agricola Cantrina in an article “I Vigneti della Cantrina”, here are the highlights: (...) The Azienda Agricola “Cantrina” managed, in the first person by Crìstina Inganni has managed to make this synthesis, dedicating its production towards the finest crus of a historic wine house, wanted by Dario Dattoli, a French wine enthusiast, “transferred” to the gentle hills of Lake Garda. Upon the untimely death of the young entrepreneur Dario Dattoli (1998), his young wife Cristina Inganni, a set designer by profession in Milan (Brera Academy) decided to continue the project with the collaboration of Diego Lavo, an expert in the field of agriculture and wine, assisted by the Zynè oenological team. (...) (...) “Talking about Cristina Inganni as an entrepreneur and as a woman is like talking about a character in some love book, where everything is centred on passions, on emotions so strong that they make you gasp. And like the plot of a novel, where the heroine, destined to live a life as a set designer, amidst colours, comedies and, fantastic dreams, is catapulted by love into the world of viticulture. Where now, the scenery is her extensive vineyards and where the colours, given by nature, create an almost romantic vision in that generous land in the Brescia area, where passion and love remain the basis of her way of being. Walking through its vineyards, one cannot help but feel, taste in the air that passion that distinguishes it. And as in a beautiful painting, one does not linger to understand, but just savours it with all the senses at one's disposal,” (this is how Alessandra Ghisleni expressed it in “Wine Internactional”) The name “Cantrina” is none other than the name of the hamlet in the municipality of Bedizzole (BS), an ancient rural village on the morainic hills of Lake Carda that slope down to the River Chiese here. (...) (...) Cristina Inganni, now owner of the “Cantrina” company, has focused her production on five varieties of wine. The philosophy of the young winery is to respect the raw material, which is highly selected, in order to always obtain the best in the wine-making cycle, but with reduced yields. Cantrina's labels include “Sole di Dario” (to remember her husband, the founder of Cantrina), a sweet passito wine; then “Rine” ITG. Benaco bresciano white, “Corteccio” IGT Benaco bresciano Pinot Nero “Zerdi” ITG Benaco bresciano red, “Nepomuceno” ITG Benaco bresciano merlot. The climatic position of the amphitheatre in which the rows of vines are laid out allows for the production of highly prized Chardonnay, Riesling, Sauvignon, Semillon, Merlot, Rebo, Marzenino, Pinot Noir and Petit Verdot. After a period of ageing in oak barrels, these wines are bottled to reach their tasting peak after two years. The Azienda Agricola “Cantrina” is a member of the Benaco bresciano ITG wine protection consortium.

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.

Cantrina makes it three at the “Merlot d'Italia” - Brescia Oggi

posted on 10 October 2008
Cantrina triumphs again at Aldeno and opens up to the «autochthonous»: the Bedizzole winery, managed by Cristina Inganni with her husband Diego Lavo, won for the third consecutive time the title of «best IGT label of previous vintages» at the Mostra dei Merlot d'Italia in Aldeno (Tn), an increasingly prestigious event dedicated exclusively to this prestigious grape variety. The award went to «Nepomuceno 2004», the flagship label of this small winery that for years has been distinguishing itself for a very special approach to the viticulture of the area, focused above all on the nuances and characteristics that the unique Valtenesi terroir can offer to the «repertoire» of great international wines.
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