linea

Storyteller

Cantrina - Riné tappo a vite

Riné gains a screw cap

posted on 13 January 2020
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. So, after these years of trials and careful study, we decided to give a screw cap to Riné as well, something that would add to the well-known ageability of this distinctive white, allowing it to preserve even greater aromatic intensity, a characteristic particularly expressive in the 2018 vintage. Given the screw cap’s sterility and hermetic seal, bottling wines is definitely made much easier, since less sulphites need to be used, which adds up to greater respect for the wine itself, for the terroir, and for the health of the consumer.

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.
1 Unfortunately, 7 8 9 10 11 Unfortunately, 16