This story has as its beginning a glance, as its prologue the early twentieth century. From that hourglass, suspended over a sepia-colored Italy, comes the destiny of a family and a company that bears the name of Giovanni Battista Cantele. It was he who first set eyes on the center of this story, it happened in Imola, in the middle of the war. Giovanni Battista Cantele had left behind Pramaggiore, where he was born, to reach the exact center of his life. It had the shape of a woman's profile who one day would have become his wife, the mother of his sons - Augusto and Domenico - and would have inspired the wine which today bears his name: Teresa Manara.
The great war was over
John the Baptist had approached the bulk wine market, a world that began in Puglia, where he would go to pick out the dark nectar to take away, northward.
When Teresa Manara saw Lecce for the first time, the time she decided to accompany her husband on one of his many business trips, she felt invaded by the same kind of silence that years earlier had kidnapped Giovanni. A sudden, irresistible fascination. To the point that she couldn't help but stay. At the same time that migrants were leaving Salento to make ends meet in the large industrial cities, so distant from this harsh land, almost an island.
Augusto, the teenage son, one day in 1979 founded Cantele Cellars, together with his father and his brother Domenico after having studied at the Research Center for Viticulture in Conegliano and having worked in the wineries of Veneto with a particular passion for white wines. In the seventies, while the world was changing once again, Augusto joined his family in Lecce and started working as a consultant in Guagnano and Salice Salentino until the beginning of the nineties, when some hectares of vineyards were bought and Cantele wines were produced.

Today it is the grandchildren of Teresa Manara and Giovanni Battista Cantele who continue the writing of this family tale poured out in many glasses. Augusto Cantele's children, Gianni and Paolo, and Domenico's children, Umberto and Luisa. A glance unites them, a liquid talent, a dream called wine.