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Azienda Agricola Cantrina

We miss you

posted on 24 April 2020
Spring has arrived in Cantrina and we are enjoying the awakening of nature in a strange and silent environment. Nature is not stopping but some of our activities are and we are working in the vineyard and in the cellar to prepare a bright coming back, as soon it will be sensible and possible. Italy is facing COVID-19 emergency and the whole country is locked down, but essential services, production and logistics are ensured. Gradually every country is implementing necessary measures and we hope you are coping with them without trouble. We want to tell you that we are fine and we are sure we will manage and overcome the emergency. We feel lucky to have the opportunity to spend the quarantine in such a wonderful place as Cantrina and we want to share it with you through some pictures, waiting for the time when it will be again possible to welcome you here and give you a hug.

Una visita inaspettata

posted on 27 April 2016
Visita inaspettata Cantrina
A volte capitano strani casi per cui un piccolo gruppo di vitivinicoltori messicani, in vacanza in Italia e quindi sul Lago di Garda, vengano a trovarti in cantina per una breve visita all’azienda e che questo diventi l’occasione per un valido  scambio culturale.

Viaggio in Sicilia

posted on 6 January 2016
Sono particolarmente legato a questa splendida regione per il ricordo di alcune entusiasmanti esperienze lavorative e non solo, che mi avevano portato là a fine anni Novanta e mi avevano fatto conoscere una Sicilia per me allora sorprendente e sconosciuta. Così, con rinnovato entusiasmo ho colto al volo l’invito di un amico-fornitore ad accompagnarlo per un breve viaggio di lavoro/piacere nella parte orientale dell’isola.

Groppello 2015

posted on 22 October 2015
In exercising my profession, I’ve been “treading the vineyards” for a good thirty years now, more or less, and I never expected to find such utterly fantastic Groppello! Totally unexpected, because Groppello, planted over hardly more than 400 hectares, exclusively on the Brescian side of Lago di Garda, is a challenging grape to grow. Its tight-packed cluster of “knotted-up” (groppello) berries; thin skin, with often little pigment; its hard-to-achieve balance of sugar and acidity—all these mean that even in good growing years the grapes struggle to ripen adequately, and suffer attacks of mould well before the harvest arrives.
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