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A day of bottling in Cantrina

posted on 15 July 2015
It was a long, hot and busy day: we bottled and packed more than 17,000 bottles - a record for our small company - between our own wines and those on consignment for other companies. Bottling is the last stage in the wine production process and is a very delicate moment, in which nothing must be left to chance, as months (and sometimes years) of waiting and work could be wasted by a simple lack or carelessness. We have, therefore, chosen to entrust ourselves to a specialist: with a lorry, he comes to us and provides us with a futuristic and complete bottling plant, all under our strict control and instruction. All that is left for us to do is to provide glass, caps, capsules, labels, personnel and... roll up our sleeves. Specifically in this round we bottled the NEPOMUCENE 2011 which will be the first to be released after the 2009 vintage, presumably next spring. As already anticipated on several occasions, the 2010 “Nepo” will not be bottled, due to a vintage that we considered not up to par for a wine of this importance. We also bottled the RINE’ 2014, of which, with great effort, we managed to increase production a little. In particular, we like the 2014 for its great freshness and aromatic finesse, certainly the result of a particularly cold vintage.

Harvest 2019

posted on 18 November 2019
Harvest 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.

Cantrina, a 20-year-old taste

posted on 12 June 2019
Twenty-year Cantina
On 13 May, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of our winery with a vertical tasting showcasing the three wines that, from our founding to the present, have become iconic. We selected the vintages of each that are most representative of the evolution of the blends, production methods, and ageing. The years tasted are: - Riné (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2013, 2017) - Nepomuceno (1999, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015) - Sole di Dario (1999, 2001, 2006, 2009, 2012)

20th Cantrina's anniversary

posted on 18 February 2019
For it was in “long-ago” 1999, amidst countless apprehensions, much enthusiasm, and just a pinch of bravado, that we decided to launch “Project Cantrina.” It represented above all the long-time dream of founder Dario Dattoli, who since the early 1990s dedicated himself to producing just handful of bottles—but made with meticulous care!—for his own enjoyment in his numerous restaurants.
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