linea

newsletter

Virtual tour and new e-commerce

posted on 27 August 2021
Over the past few months, we have been working on a new project that we are now ready to launch. With the goal of cancelling geographical boundaries and reducing the distance between all you loyal wine-lovers, we have re-structured, updated, and enlarged our mygroppelloThis virtual universe will allow you to relate to our partners abroad and to purchase what we produce at Cantrina. We also improved our tours here at the winery, which you can now book online both at prenotare on line (sia da www.cantrina.it/en/ and at mygroppello); for all of you Amici di Cantrina who are reading this, nothing will change, and tours will obviously remain complimentary. Just access our online calendar and come see us: we’re ready to welcome you here with our usual straightforward simplicity. For those of you farther away, and those who would like to know more about us before coming, mygroppello also has a section dedicated to a virtual tour of Cantrina, our uniquely-easy way of helping you to discover our small universe here at Cantrina.

A battle

The stars are certainly not lining up so far for this year’s growing season: just when a mild spring promised an early budbreak, a freeze hit part of our vineyard very hard on the night of April 5-6. The damage looked severe and consistent across the various grape varieties and vineyards, but nature dealt us another surprise card, this time more welcome: the affected vines did, in fact, put out new shoots, in a somewhat scattered fashion, and with less of a future crop, of course. Thanks to tremendous work amidst the vine-rows, where we paid even more meticulous attention to each individual shoot and cluster that remained, we estimate that our final loss will be “only” 30% of our crop. We will be producing less of some of the wines, but we have our fingers crossed, in hope for the remainder of the season, since at this moment the vines seem in good health, and the appearance of the clusters leads us to look for a good harvest.

Bottlings

We are very close to bottling Nepomuceno 2017, a very fine vintage and certified organic for the first time to boot, and Riné 2020 Organic wine , which we are extremely happy with. That same day, we will also bottle something very intriguing: a very limited run of a special lot of red wine, the latest offspring of Cantrina’s Pure Stylistic Expression. We’ll certainly have much more to say about this exceptional wine in the future, when we have a bit more time, and this is a wine that is in no hurry…

New event

With hope that the COVID-19 situation will let us get back to normal this coming autumn, we have put on our calendar the first event in which we will be participating with our wines: come see us on Monday, 4 October in Vienna at Christian Bauer’s Wein & Kultur KG at the Hotel Regina in Rooseveltplatz.

Cristina and Diego

Cantrina at New York

posted on 6 July 2010
Hello there everyone! As in all family-run companies we’ve been very busy, and so some time has passed since our last newsletter… Here, then, is a little news about our activities over the past few months. Having found an importer in the United States, we went to New York for a brief business trip and we are now looking forward to seeing our wines on the lists of some specialist wine stores and/or exclusive restaurants in Manhattan. In our opinion, New York is a city that offers great opportunities and there even particular products like ours can find the right type of market exposure. At a tasting at the Hudson Hotel our products – especially the Nepomuceno and the Rinè - were highly appreciated, and our American friends suggested that we define our wines as “unconventional” because of the character and original style that set them apart.

Let’s meet in Cantrina

posted on 1 April 2010
LIBERO ESERCIZIO DI STILE 2009 We keep on experimenting at Cantrina and in 2009 it was the turn of a tank of Roséobtained from the vinification of 100% Pinot Nero (Pinot Noir) grapes. At the moment, fruit and freshness are the main characteristics of this wine. The must was in contact with the skins for about 9 hours, followed by careful vinification and maturation in stainless steel. In our opinion it is a wine that has good potential for development: we’d like to see what it’s like in a year’s time… after all, we’re talking about a rosé made from a well-structured grape like Pinot Nero. By the way, the wine is already on sale.

Last news 2009

posted on 11 December 2009
During the harvest, Ivan, a dear friend of ours and a keen photographer, came to visit us: he is extremely good at capturing original situations and he is often kind enough to give us some of his splendid snapshots. Well, this year he really amazed us with his tiny but extremely efficient camera: using the video recording function, he turned himself into a film director, shooting harvest scenes with rare spontaneity. We still start to smile when we think of Ivan racing up and down between the vines on Gianni (our trusty vineyard worker)‘s bicycle as he filmed each scene, each person and each detail like an enthusiastic child, eager to complete a jigsaw puzzle of the vintage at Cantrina. The video only lasts 8 minutes, so we urge you to take a short break and watch this really unmissable clip.
1 Unfortunately, 12 13 14 15