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Riné

posted on 21 March 2022
Dear Customers and Winelovers, We’d like to talk to you a bit about our Riné. Although it has changed over the years, we conceived Cantrina’s white wine--our distinctive blend of Riesling and Chardonnay, and a bit of other white varieties we grow here in our estate vineyards--as one that would evolve and mature with cellaring, offering its best even many years after bottling. We noticed, though, in the few years, that we were often forced to sell Riné too soon, and thus offering our customers a wine that was still inexpressive and therefore not fully appreciated for what it really was. Thus our decision to fully recognise the unique merits of this unusual wine by postponing the release of Riné 2020 at least until autumn 2022. As you well know, ours is a very limited production, fruit of a meticulous quality-selection of grapes grown in 8 hectares of organically-cultivated vineyards. Further, we have now had three successive growing years of below-average crops, a challenge that has constrained us to reduce the number of bottles or made it difficult to even produce some of our wines at all. We define ourselves as artisanal winegrowers, which means striving to pay close attention to every single detail in order to follow the most natural path possible in achieving our particular idea of the wine that we bottle and offer to our wine-loving customers. One “detail” that is fundamental for us, throughout the winemaking process, is the selection of the right time. There is a right time for harvesting, a right time for fermenting, for racking, for maturing the wine, for bottling, and, finally, for the right time-length for its ageing in the bottle before the right time arrive to fully enjoy the fruit of such lengthy efforts. Believe us, this decision has cost us a great effort, both logistical and, of course, financial, and it pains us to have to leave some customers wine-less for some months, but we are convinced that our choice will come to be appreciated over time as an act of rigorous winemaking and of respect for all the fans of this superb wine. Thank you, Cristina and Diego

Degustazione Il Vino e le Donne

posted on 3 March 2014
Vi informo del prossimo incontro con i vini di Cantrina presso il Ristorante Cappuccini Resortin Via Cappuccini, 54 a Cologne BS il giorno 07/03/14 alle ore 20:00, sarà una degustazione un po’ particolare con abbinamenti azzardati!

I miracoli del vino!

posted on 5 January 2014
La sera del 28 dicembre ho partecipato a una degustazione organizzata in quel di San Zeno di Montagna  dall’amico Angelo Peretti, grande e appassionato conoscitore di vini, protagonisti i Bordeaux anni ’60, solo Saint-Emilion.

Al mercato dei vignaioli si ha l’opportunità di conoscere anche il più piccolo e semi sconosciuto produttore di vino…

posted on 2 December 2013
Sabato 30 novembre e domenica 1 dicembre si è svolta all’Expo di Piacenza la terza edizione del Mercato dei Vignaioli Indipendenti (FIVI). L’impressione è che il numero di produttori presenti sia aumentato così come la presenza dei visitatori. Per noi non è tanto importante parteciparvi per realizzare una vendita fine a se stessa, quanto per rafforzare lo spirito di appartenenza all’associazione.
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