Wine and Formula 1: a combination that has always been close, if you think of excellent producers such as Maurice Trintignant, Jean Alesi, Jarno Trulli and, with much smaller numbers, the niches that Siegfried Stohr and Gabriele Tredozi have carved out for themselves. And now it’s time for another well-known name, that of Mattia Binottothe person responsible for the large Audi operation in Formula 1 who presented his in the refined setting of the Frangente in Milan Animantica, a vintage Chardonnay (2021) produced by the Cantina Eleusi of Faedo Trentino, owned by it. “In F1 I have always been chasing fractions of a second, but with wine I like the wait for the result in contact with the alternation of the seasons. A business? No, a pleasure that touches the soul because it is a very personal thing, born in the period after the years at Ferrari“, said the engineer.
I’m alone 2300 the bottles of the first available harvest, fruit of the San Michele all’Adige vineyards. Perhaps a Pinot bianco will arrive later, together with a new project at the foot of the Brenta Dolomites. Meticulous preparation work awaiting the Binotto-branded bubbles to celebrate Audi’s first victory in F1: it would be wonderful, right?
