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Class 64 in tasting

posted on 5 January 2015
On Sunday evening (28/12/14) I attended the Bordeaux tasting, which has now become a classic end-of-year event that Angelo Peretti organises for just a few lucky friends at the Taverna Kus in San Zeno di Montagna. In my opinion it is the best way to celebrate the end of one year and the arrival of a new one. On stage this year were 12 wines from the 1964 vintage (they are 50 years old, you guessed it) and it is always very exciting to approach these wines and discover that charm is often an emotion that knows no age... Below is my commentary on some of the wines that impressed me the most, and at the end you will find the complete list of the labels in the tasting. We are talking about wines produced “pre-Parker-mania”, hence Bordeaux with a gentle, elegant soul, where super-concentration is almost non-existent, the alcohol degrees range from 10° to 12°, but what freshness, what length of mouth, what longevity! ...the ’64 was certainly a good vintage. My favourites: first of all Margaux Chateaux Brane-Cantenac: clean, clear-cut bouquet, you feel the balance already on the nose and so in the mouth. Discharge of colour, light but intense body, serious, classy, spicy. Followed by Saint-Emilion Grand Cru - Clos Labarde, Pomerol - Chateau Feytit Còlinet and Haut Médoc - Chateau Duplessis. A pity that three out of the twelve on the list were corked. Complete list:
  • 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

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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