{"title":"Montemelino","description":"\u003cp\u003eMargret and Guido Cantarelli farm their bucolic small property, Montemolino, nestled in the hill surrounding lake Trasimeno in the northern part of Umbria. They have become famous for their exceptional olive oil and their incredibly charming country wines. In fact they are the linchpin of Matteo Motto’s import portfolio, Selection Natural. Matt founded his company with the single goal of exposing the world to the exceptional quality of some of Italy’s farmer wines. At the Cantarellis he found what is in his opinion one of the best. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn fact the story of this wine begins with a visit from Matt to check out the next vintage of Montemelino. After he and his companion tasted through wines with Margaret and Guido, they went back to the small village next to the winery and sat down at the local tavern to have dinner and discuss the wines they had just tasted. Both were very happy with what they had sampled at the Cantarelli but they had hard time concentrating because whatever the tavern had plonked down on their table in an unlabeled, used bottle was too good to be just any old tavern wine. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey asked the owner where they were getting this amazing wine from and to their surprise, the answer was Montemelino. They got back in the car, headed straight back up the hill to ask the Cantarellis, what gives? It turns out that for as long as anyone could remember the family had been making this wine for local consumption and had never bottled it. They just didn't think anyone outside of their corner of Umbria would be that interested \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatt was in fact very interested. He convinced them to bottle in a liter with a screw top so as to signify its humble origins. Great tavern wines have always been one of the joys of traveling through Europe and so he wanted to bring that experience home.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/montemelino.oembed","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}