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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.

Soreli

posted on 8 February 2017
Cantrina Farm
If any of you visited us recently, you will have noticed on entering that a good part of the small vineyard growing at the entrance and covering the cellar was grubbed up. Was it because of the wrong rootstock, or maybe too many passes with the tractor compacted the soil, or the wrong grape variety for the soil, poor-quality vines, or…? As a matter of fact, a good part of the vines were in bad condition and even dead, so much so that we had to take them out.

German taste

posted on 20 November 2016
I’ve just returned from the annual K&U tasting days in Nuremberg; it is always a delight to be there as a wine producer. Martin, Chistopher, Dunia and their entire staff were fantastic, and there was the usual large group of customer-tasters. The most enjoyable part was being able to exchange opinions on wine with producer-friends from France, Austria and Germany, all in a relaxing context of laughter and enjoyment

Seize the time

posted on 31 August 2016
Men still at work for our new video, we cannot miss the vintage…
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