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Befana 2015

posted on 6 January 2015
Warm wishes to all from the Befana!!! As always, we like to wait until the beginning of the new year to send everyone our best wishes for the holidays just past and our hopes that the new year will start off in the best way possible. Looking a bit down the road, and at our own life here, we are hopeful that 2015 will be a terrific growing year–and, who knows, perhaps even a great vintage! OK, maybe I’m going a little too fast here, or even just dreaming… so it’s best that I let you know what’s been happening with Cantrina. PROWEIN 2015: After last year’s very satisfactory experience, we will be returning this year to Prowein in Düsseldorf. We will welcome you in our usual spot, Merum’s stand #16E71 in Hall-Pavilion 16, on 15-16-17 March. PROPOSTA VINI TASTING: Restaurateurs will want to note that on January 26, at the  Hotel Montresor Tower di Bussolengo (VR) in Bussolengo, Proposta Viniwill officially introduce its 2015 Catalogue, and the wines will be available for tasting. We ourselves will be there of course, along with many other fascinating small producers from all over Italy. Look at the homepage on our website for the notice with all the details. NEW VINTAGE IN THE MARKET: The end of the year marked the release of RINE’ 2013 and of NEPOMUCENO 2009, these are truly two very fine wines. Yes, at the moment they may show an imperfection or two due to their youth, but even as early as this coming spring they will be impressing you! We want to let you know as well that we still have a few–a very few!–bottles of the previous vintages, and in particular magnums of the 2006-2007-2008  Nepomuceno. 2015 BOTTLING SCHEDULE: We are just about to bottle ROSANOIRE 2014. This wine boasts a zesty acidity, thanks to a truly one-of-a-kind growing season, and that means that this will be a wine with great cellarability: you’ll be enjoying it for many, many years to come. Bottled along with the rosé will be ZERDI’ 2012. It has never turned so well, with rich fruit and clean contours, and we expect a great future for it. VALTENESI and RINE’ 2014 will go to bottle in late spring. They exhibit the same hallmarks of Rosanoire crisp acidity and impressive ageing potential, perfect exemplars of the 2014 growing year; we believe these wines will continue revealing their qualities over a very long time. NEPOMUCENO merits separate comment. We decided not to bottle a 2010 vintage of this wine, since the 2010 vintage was, in our opinion, not high enough in quality to produce a wine such as NEPOMUCENO. So, we will be bottling NEPOMUCENO 2011 in the summer, and what fun that wine promises to be… Cristina and Diego

Harvest 2020

posted on 5 November 2020
Warm greetings to you all! It’s already late autumn and therefore the time to draw some overall conclusions about the 2020 harvest that just ended. We mentioned in our last newsletter that in our area, and in particular for those of us who have chosen the path of farming organically, it was certainly a difficult growing year, with plenty of heavy rains, sometimes along with hail, that accompanied us from June on, almost right up to the start of harvest

Harvest 2020

posted on 2 September 2020
Vendemmia 2020 Cantrina
We’re just about there...This year, too, we’re almost into harvest. That despite a winter that was among the warmest and driest in memory, despite the Covid-19 crisis and lockdown, decked out in gloves and masks; despite the late spring and near-rainless summer; despite hail here and there that did some damage; despite the ultra-vigorous foliage in the vineyards that made us re-double our efforts to ward off fungal attacks and carefully monitor the crop; and despite all the large and small problems that we have to always confront every day “on the grape-growing front”.

A NEW YEAR AND NEW VINTAGES ARRIVING

posted on 12 January 2020

RINE’ GAINS A SCREW CAP

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.
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