CANTINA TOLLO: SANDRO CIAVATTELLA IS THE NEW GENERAL DIRECTOR
CANTINA TOLLO: SANDRO CIAVATTELLA IS THE NEW GENERAL DIRECTOR
8 August 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Sandro Ciavattella is Cantina Tollo’s new general director. The appointment was announced during the group’s customary Members’ Meeting that precedes the harvest, which was held on Sunday, July 28 th , in Tollo (Chieti) at the company’s headquarters. A 43- year-old from Pescara, Ciavattella is not a new face for Cantina Tollo: in fact, he has already held the role of Chief Financial Officer at the Abruzzo-based cooperative for an impressive seven years, from 2017 to 2023. “I am honored by the trust that the President and the Board of Directors have granted me”, says Ciavattella, “and excited to begin this new professional journey at Cantina Tollo. The goal is to develop a shared vision and give even more value to teamwork by involving members and employees in the life of the company, with the aim of improving the company’s current performance and reaching new, ambitious goals and markets together.”
“Thanks to the work of Sandro Ciavattella and our members”, continues Gianluca Orsini, president of the cooperative, “Cantina Tollo will be able to face the new challenges of the market. I am sure that together we will be able to achieve great results and make our wines even more appreciated, both in Italy and abroad, and that we can keep narrating this corner of Abruzzo through our glasses.”
During the Members’ Meeting, Cantina Tollo’s new storage warehouse was also inaugurated. The warehouse has a temperature-controlled refrigeration system that allows better management of bottled products and a significant reduction in energy costs thanks to the photovoltaic system.
FOOD&WINE ITALIA AWARDS: CANTINA TOLLO AWARDS ALT STAZIONE DEL GUSTO AND NUMERO ZERO RESTAURANT
FOOD&WINE ITALIA AWARDS: CANTINA TOLLO AWARDS ALT STAZIONE
DEL GUSTO AND NUMERO ZERO RESTAURANT
29 november 2023
Thanks to its partnership with the Italian office of the well-known US magazine, the Chieti-based company awarded the two projects the prizes dedicated to Innovation in Food and Social Responsibility in Food
Cantina Tollo supports the fourth edition of the Food&Wine Italia Awards by rewarding the ALT Stazione del Gusto project and Numero Zero restaurant in Perugia for the categories Innovation in Food and Social Responsibility in Food, respectively. ALT Stazione del Gusto is chef Niko Romito’s project in collaboration with Enilive that aims to combine good and tasty food with the concept of roadside catering: an idea born in 2018 thanks to the shared values of the two businesses, which see innovation as a resource, and have a people-first approach. Numero Zero, on the other hand, is the restaurant in Perugia where half of the staff is made up of psychiatric patients supported by catering professionals and supervised by a clinical staff. A psychiatric centre during the day and a restaurant at night, the space is designed to create a social opportunity for patients, but also real inclusion that takes the form of paid work. "We are thrilled to support these two projects that are totally in line with the nature and mission of Cantina Tollo,"says President Luciano Gagliardi. "Our group has always given great attention to the dimension of social relations, and worked towards innovative ways to create new perspectives for the enhancement of the territory, just as these outstanding realities – that we have the honour of awarding today – have done," adds CEO Andrea Di Fabio.
The awards were assigned by a board composed of Food&Wine Italia editorial staff and a team of leading journalists, bloggers and communication and design experts. The awards ceremony, held by Francesca Romana Barberini, took place on Monday, November 27 th at the Casa del Cinema in Villa Borghese, Rome.
In particular, ALT Stazione del Gusto was awarded in the Food Innovation category because it is considered a scalable project that combines energy innovation, services and quality food, engineering and making accessible also to young investors a street food model with a people-centred approach that provides quality and innovative content at affordable prices with a cross-sectional offer from breakfast to dinner. Numero Zero, on the other hand, won the Social Responsibility in Food mention for being a virtuous social inclusion and job creation project investigating the issue of mental health in the catering world.
MAIOLICA IGP TERRE DI CHIETI: CANTINA TOLLO REDISCOVERS THE ABRUZZESE GRAPE VARIETY
MAIOLICA IGP TERRE DI CHIETI: CANTINA TOLLO REDISCOVERS THE ABRUZZESE GRAPE VARIETY
March 17, 2023
The new label will make its debut at ProWein and Vinitaly. It is inspired by the tiles of the church of San Donato di Castelli, defined as the "Sistine Chapel of Majolica"
Cantina Tollo, a company that has been one of the main ambassadors of the flavors of Abruzzo for more than sixty years, will launch Maiolica Igp Terre di Chieti, a red wine made from grapes of this indigenous variety rediscovered thanks to the work of their group. The new reference will make its debut first at ProWein, scheduled in Düsseldorf from 19 to 21 March, and then at Vinitaly, in Verona from 2 to 5 April.
Majolica is a grape variety once cultivated in Abruzzo and later abandoned. Historical traces of its cultivation are witnessed already in 1875. The recovery of the variety was made possible thanks to the work of Cantina Tollo and the germ bank of the Istituto Sperimentale di Viticoltura di Conegliano Veneto (Treviso). The cooperative was one of the first companies to receive the vine shoots, planted in 2019, and to market bottles of Maiolica Igp Terre di Chieti from the 2021 vintage. The small experimental vineyard is located in the municipality of Tollo, but cultivation has also begun in hilly environments, with a greater temperature range, to test and assess the suitable habitat for the vine. “We have always been proud ambassadors of Abruzzo in the world,” explains Luciano Gagliardi, President of Cantina Tollo. “The rediscovery of the majolica vine is the revival of a piece of our collective history, which coincides with that of the place that gives the winery its name. Once again, therefore, we are bringing back the roots of an extraordinary territory like that of Tollo”.
The image depicted on the label reproduces the tile specially made by ceramicist Lorenzo Di Stefano, who was inspired by the 17th-century decorations of the country church of San Donato di Castelli (Teramo). The tile chosen for Cantina Tollo's new label is precisely one of these beautiful women with an austere profile and rich clothing standing out against a deep blue background. Maiolica Igp Terre di Chieti is a soft ruby-colored wine with hints of macerated wild strawberry and raspberry. On the palate, it is elegant, and medium-bodied, with silky, balanced tannins and a lively acidity that leads to a long, deep finish.
Maiolica IGT Terre di Chieti will be on sale in Cantina Tollo's eshop from April, at 13 euro.
Cantina Tollo: Important communication
!!! Important message
February 3, 2023
February 3, 2023On January 30th, 2023 an IT attack on the data center that hosts some of our Company's IT systems compromised the use of some of our main services.
In the last few days we have been doing everything necessary to fix the situation in order to avoid further consequences on the privacy and security of the personal data of our customers and our company. Following that event, necessary measures were put in place to remedy possible violations of personal data. In the meantime, to allow us to better manage what happened, the affected systems have been deactivated and isolated from the network. These measures, while involving the interruption of some services for a limited period of time, are necessary to avoid the increasing of the the consequences of the attack.
For further information or clarifications, please contact ced@cantinatollo.it We apologize for the inconvenience, we will communicate any updates as soon as further evidence becomes available following the analyzes in progress. This communication is also made in accordance to and for the purposes of the provisions of art. 34 of the reg. EU 2016/679 (GDPR).