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Andrea Bernardini
Winemaker
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i. Biography
Andrea Bernardini is consultant winemaker at La Bollina in Serravalle Scrivia, Italy, where his wine work now centers. Trained first in enology and viticulture at the University of Pisa in 2007, he has built a career that moves between place and practice with quiet confidence, drawing on experience gathered across Tuscany and abroad. His path has not been a straight line so much as a series of measured steps through different landscapes, each one adding to the precision and breadth that now define his work.
The Path
Andrea Bernardini trained at University of Pisa, an education in enology and viticulture that gave structure to the instinct and discipline required of a winemaker. From there, he stepped into a globe-spanning career shaped by a succession of distinctive postings, each one broadening the range of conditions, styles, and expectations he would encounter. He went on to work as winemaker at Poggio Bonelli in Tuscany, where his early professional life remained close to the region that had helped shape his training, before moving on to winemaker at South Africa in South Africa, a chapter that extended his perspective beyond Italy and into a different wine world altogether. Taken together, these roles sketch a career marked less by repetition than by accumulation: each posting adding another layer to his understanding of how wines are formed, guided, and refined. Today, Andrea is consultant winemaker of La Bollina, winemaker of Ruffino, and winemaker of CorteMedicea, a trio of roles that reflects both the range of his expertise and the trust placed in it.
The Work Today
He serves as consultant winemaker at La Bollina. In that capacity, his work now centers on shaping the estate’s wine program with the kind of steady, seasoned perspective that comes only after years spent moving between regions and methods. At La Bollina in Serravalle Scrivia, Italy, his role sits at the meeting point of experience and expression, where the accumulated lessons of Tuscany, South Africa, Romania, and Greece are distilled into present-tense decisions.
Signature
Andrea's signature dishes include La Bollina Narses Campania Aglianico 2021, La Bollina Papios Sicily 2018, La Bollina Nesios Toscana 2019, 2018 'Adulis' Toscana IGT, and La Bollina ‘Minetta’. Read together, these names form something like a tasting-room portrait: a list that is also a map of his work, each wine carrying its own distinct sense of place and vintage while remaining part of the broader La Bollina story. The range suggests a winemaker attentive to nuance, to the ways different sites and years speak through the glass, and to the balance between identity and precision that marks a considered cellar.
Acclaim
His key distinction is the breadth of his wine experience across Tuscany, South Africa, Romania, and Greece, built from his University of Pisa training in enology and viticulture. That breadth is not merely a résumé point but the foundation of his professional identity: a career assembled through movement, learning, and steady craft, with each posting contributing to the depth of his current perspective. Andrea Bernardini’s reputation rests on that combination of formal training and international experience, and on the way he has brought both to bear in his work at La Bollina.
Profile updated July 2026
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What is Andrea Bernardini's current role?
As of 2026, Andrea Bernardini is Consultant Winemaker.
Where did Andrea Bernardini train or study?
Andrea Bernardini trained at University of Pisa.
