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
Giovanni Battista had approached the bulk wine market, a world which began in Apulia, where he used to go to choose the dark nectar to be taken away, towards north.
When Teresa Manara saw Lecce for the first time, the time she decided to accompany her husband in one of the many business trips, she felt invaded by the same kind of silence that years before 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 a harsh land, almost an island.
Augusto, the teenage son, one day in 1979 would have founded Cantine Cantele, 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 are the grandchildren of Teresa Manara and Giovanni Battista Cantele to continue the writing of this family story poured in many glasses. Augusto Cantele's sons, Gianni and Paolo, and Domenico's sons, Umberto and Luisa. A glance unites them, a liquid talent, a dream called wine.
Description
Cantele's Teresa Manara is a great barricaded wine made from pure Negroamaro grapes. This elegant wine is dedicated to the mother of Augusto Cantele, founder of the winery.
The name of this woman, Teresa Manara, is the essence and the keystone of a family passion, the sense of the art of winemaking and of all the vintages experienced by the generations that have taken turns, just like the actors in a play that has been repeated several times and has become a classic, on a mother earth when the seasons turn, like human lives, one into the other. Therefore, Teresa Manara is not only the name of a Negroamaro, but a watershed of memory, the loving homage to the woman, the mother, the wife, the inspiring muse and the grandmother.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Color: Intense ruby red variegated with light black cherry reflections.
Nose: Fruit and red flowers foreshadow the evolution of the bouquet, specifying the ample scent of violets, mastic tree and blackcurrant to which is added the spiciness of underbrush and Mediterranean scrub.
Palate: The aroma reflects the bold and decisive expression typical of Negroamaro and at the same time the sensitive finesse.
