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About the Winery:
The Corte Sant’Alda winery is in a valley near the village of Mezzane di Sotto. Away from the blistering summer heat, we sat down with Marinella Camerani, the founder and owner of the winery, and by any measure she is a remarkable woman. Over the years the property has grown from 5 to 19 hectares of vineyards producing around 100,000 bottles of wine per year.
The rambling farmhouse that she moved to was a semi-derelict ruin but it is now both her home and her winery. There you can see the massive French oak tini that are used for fermenting the wines and from there, descending into an old Roman cellar, you will find the oldest of the botti used to mature the wines.
These fermentation vats and barrels used to produce and mature the wine have a story to tell in themselves, The choice of French rather than Slovenian oak for the fermentation vessels and the rich colour of the cherry wood used for some of the barrels speak of a woman who is prepared to experiment and innovate. This is reinforced by the terracotta amphora that she is currently using to ferment her rosé wine. Outside is another example of this restlessness in the shape of the conical cement fermentation vessels she uses to produce her orange wine called Inti. But the heart of this business are the traditional wines of this area.