OUR STORY

My grandmother Tonina, the mother of my father Mario and my uncle Ugo, had a large cellar and I will never forget the effect that the large oak barrels even of 200 hl had on me that seemed infinitely large when I visited the cellar with my family.

My dad Mario and my uncle Ugo made different professional choices and La Cantina saw the end of its life in the early 70s. Grandma Tonina, when we talked about the cellar, wine and vineyards, she always gave me directions even though I was still very young; I will never forget one of the most important pieces of advice that she often repeated to me and that is that if I had ever started producing wine, I would always have to remember to keep an important sum of money aside to cope with the difficult vintages, vintages that she had personally known.

When 25 years ago I started, more by fatality than by will, to produce wines, all the words of my grandmother often came back to my mind. I will never forget the emotion of my uncle Ugo, then already over eighty years old, when at the beginning of my cellar I made him taste one of my best reds, and that was a particularly significant moment, as if he wanted to convey to me with his emotion that I was continuing something that had been interrupted years before and he was giving me his assent on the quality of what he was tasting. I guarantee you that I will never forget those moments.

Today, after so many years, even if it seems like yesterday my first harvest, I can say, with infinite pleasure that despite having gone through extremely difficult years, thank God overcome, to be extremely happy every day to carry on my cellar, my vineyards and to share with my customer friends my bottles that I am sure are a small part of me and all my energy that I put into the company.

Never as today have I been convinced that some products can come to life thanks to the commitment, experience and love that each of us manages to combine and express.