We are honored to be awarded as winners of the Wineries category by Italy Food Awards and we would like to share this achievement with all the people who contribute every day to make this success possible.

Award received for our Ombre di Luna – Albana Passito DOCG 2022 – which adds further confirmation to our desire to enhance the native varieties of our land.

The first work of the artistic series published by Merlotta: a tribute to the beauty of the gesture, to the depth of wine, to the culture that unites.

Signed by Rolando Giovanni and Pietro Lenzini, this creation is much more than an image: it is an invitation to look beyond, to toast to rebirth with the gaze of art and a heart open to the future.

Our journey of historical, artistic, iconographic and cultural research linked to the origins of the Merlotta brand, with the path triggered by a fresco found in the manor house owned by the property, reached its highest point with the presentation of the volume ‘Tridènte – The values ​​of identity’ at the Bim – Municipal Library of Imola.

Giulia Michelini and Caterina Forza guests of Merlotta
Not just engines and cinema. Our cellar was the scene of a unique event, where art and conviviality met. During the filming of the new Netflix series, directed by Matteo Rovere for Groenlandia Group (coming in 2025), the actresses Giulia Michelini and Caterina Forza, together with a select group of professionals, were our guests for an exclusive tasting.

The journey through the decorative and iconographic styles that have characterized the Merlotta winery over the decades highlights the great attention the Minzolini family has paid to the image and communication of its brand. A path that runs parallel to the growing investments in the marketing sector to better parameterize, and enhance in absolute terms, the quality wine production to the evolution of the sector market standards.

Albana and Sangiovese are two very ancient vines to which are linked stories, legends and important passages traceable in various literary works. The three wines of the Tridènte line, aged for three years, refer to the three prongs of the trident of Neptune, God of the waters, a figure to which we connect the pictorial elements found and preserved in the ancient manor house of the Minzolini family a few steps from the headquarters of the Merlotta winery.

Another great satisfaction branded Merlotta. Our Fondatori GP Albana Secco DOCG 2023 has been included among the 300 best wines of Italy by the guide Vinibuoni d’Italia 2025.

Many of you have come to visit us to launch this new chapter in the more than 60-year-long romance of the Merlotta winery.

On June 15th a great event to celebrate the new line of the Imola wine cellar which boasts more than 60 years
of history and production.

An interesting meeting took place last May 15th in the spaces of our cellar, full of stimuli and constructive discussions, on a current topic such as that of the development