Azienda Agricola Cantrina

Cantrina is a tiny rural village in Valtenesi located in the municipality of Bedizzole, in the Brescia hinterland of Lake Garda in Lombardy. When, at the beginning of the 1990s, I created the estate that I run today together with Diego Lavo, I decided to give it the name of our little village, Cantrina. The Estate is small and completely family-run. In all we cultivate just under 8 hectares of land, split up between three different sites. We have planted 45,000 vines, initially concentrating mainly on international varieties, although we are now rediscovering some local vines as well. Following out first (somewhat experimental) bottles in the 1990s, the wines began to take on a distinctive style with the 2000 vintage. Our goal is to express in our wines the unique characteristics that our small plots of land confer on the various types of grapes that we grow. We like to interpret our work in the vineyard and in the winery as an open-minded exercise de style, that is to say free fr...