Destiny arrives uninvited and without taking off its hat; in the history of our winery, this is doubly true, as destiny actually took off its gloves and set down its suitcase: it was a woman capable of recognizing a much vaster concert in the faint voice of the bulk wines of Southern Italy.
The name of this woman, Teresa Manara, is the entire essence and keystone of a family passion, the meaning of the art of winemaking and of all the harvests experienced by generations who have taken turns, just like the actors of a play that has been performed many times and become a classic, on a motherland where seasons, like human lives, transition one into another. Therefore, Teresa Manara is not just the name of a Chardonnay, a Negroamaro, and a Primitivo, but a watershed of memory, a loving tribute to the woman, the mother, the wife, the inspiring muse, and the grandmother.
Teresa Manara traversed Italy in years when businesses were still reserved for men, with a temperament that today imbues the most important selections of Chardonnay, Negroamaro, and Primitivo signed, in the nineties, by her son Augusto Cantele.
