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Classe 64 in degustazione

posted on 5 January 2015
Domenica sera (28/12/14) ho partecipato alla degustazione dei Bordeaux, ormai diventata un classico appuntamento di fine anno che Angelo Peretti organizza per solo pochi fortunati amici presso la Taverna Kus di San Zeno di Montagna. Secondo me è il miglior modo per festeggiare la fine di un anno e l’arrivo di quello nuovo. Di scena quest’anno 12 vini dell’annata 1964 (hanno cinquant’anni, avete capito bene) ed è sempre molto esaltante approcciarsi a questi vini e scoprire che spesso il fascino è un’emozione che non conosce età… Di seguito il mio commento su alcuni vini che più mi hanno colpito, a chiusura trovate la lista completa delle etichette in degustazione. Stiamo parlando di vini prodotti “pre Parker-mania”, quindi Bordeaux con anima gentile, elegante, dove la super-concentrazione è pressocché inesistente, i gradi alcolici vanno dai 10° ai 12°, ma che freschezze, che lunghezza di bocca, che longevità!!! …il ’64 è stata sicuramente una buona annata. I miei favoriti: primo fra tutti Margaux Chateaux Brane-Cantenac: profumo pulito, netto, senti l’equilibrio già al naso e così in bocca. Scarico di colore, corpo leggero ma intenso, serioso, di classe, speziato. Seguono Saint-Emilion Grand Cru – Clos Labarde, Pomerol – Chateau Feytit Còlinet e Haut Médoc – Chateau Duplessis. Peccato che tre sui dodici della lista fossero ingiudicabili causa tappo. Lista completa:
  • GRAVES – CH HAUT BAILLY
  • POMEROL – CH FEYTIT CLINET
  • MARGAUX – CH GISCOURS
  • PAUILLAC – CH BATAILLEY
  • POMEROL – CLOS RENE’
  • MOULIS EN MEDOC – CH CHASSE SPLEEN
  • SAINT-EMILION – CLOS LABARDE
  • GRAVES – CH DE FIEUZAL
  • HAUT MEDOC – CH DUPLESSIS
  • POMEROL – CH BEAUREGARD
  • MARGAUX – CH BRANE CANTENAC
  • PAUILLAC – CH PEDESCLAUX

We miss you

posted on 24 April 2020
Azienda Agricola Cantrina
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.

Riné gains a screw cap

posted on 13 January 2020
Cantrina - Riné tappo a vite
This coming March, the new 2018 vintage of Riné, its second vintage as a certified organic wine, will debut on the market under a screw cap for the first time, and so we want to talk a bit about this type of closure. We have been using this closure for some years now for Rosanoire, and since last year for our latest-born Valtènesi Chiaretto. We have found the results positive in terms of cellarability, soundness, and crispness, in particular over the medium- and long-term; our customers, often tired of opening wines that were tainted, have expressed full satisfaction.

Harvest 2019

posted on 18 November 2019
Vendemmia Cantrina 2019
Autumn has FINALLY arrived. The long and hot Summer 2019, which lasted till October, is now behind us.  Now, the weather is inviting us to stay a bit in the house (or in the cellar) and is helping us to think straight…. That past season was, here in our area, one of the strangest and most complicated within recent memory. We found ourselves having to face conditions that were simultaneously both extreme and contradictory. The cold and rains during flowering caused a reduction in the potential crop, and two hailstorms in June and early August caused even worse damage, since they actually halved the crop.
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