Violante is the new sales manager for her mum Donatella
Finally Violante can consider her dream come true and she is at last head of sales of the 170.000 bottles produced at Casato Prime Donne and at Fattoria del Colle
A small production of prestigious wines which are already today sold in restaurants and wine stores in 31 nations around the world. Violante Gardini, the Cinellicolombini Jr , faces this new challenge full of enthusiasm. She has waited nearly 10 years for this moment, preparing herself with a degree in business economics in Florence, work experience for the Movimento Turismo del vino National office, under the watchful eye of Chiara Lungarotti and most importantly the Master OIV which, for a whole year, has taken her to the universities, to the wine producing regions and to the wine markets that are most important all over the world.
In her mother Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s estate she has worked her way up through the front office in the country inn and in the wine sales
department. She has learned how to be less impulsive and to reflect before living her opinion. Violante has in fact an explosive personality and to contain it has been her largest battle. She is tireless and enthusiastic and she has been able to conciliate her studies with roles in the Leo Club (the Lions club for the younger generation) where she has been regional president at only 25 years of age. Now she is in the national board of AGIVI – Associazione giovani imprenditori vinicoli italiani and of the Strada del vino Orcia. Roles which help her to widen her horizons accept her responsibilities and put herself to the service of others.
Mum Donatella looks on proudly and full of hope. It will be Violante who will concentrate the exportation to few strategic markets and who will give solidity and structure to the estate that Donatella created 15 years ago and that already today emerges in the national panorama