Marco Cavedini

Coming Up

Agronomy came first, before the family business pulled Marco Cavedini back into the practical language of winegrowing. That background matters at CAVEDINI in San Martino Buon Albergo, Italy: it gives sales a working vocabulary grounded in the vineyard, not just the market. As Sales Manager at CAVEDINI, Marco Cavedini sits between production and commerce, translating the estate’s identity into the terms buyers and trade partners need, while staying close to the seasonal logic that shapes the wine itself. Family ownership became a formal responsibility in 2009, when Marco Cavedini became titolare of Cavedini (azienda di famiglia). The title places him inside the continuity of the house, not outside it, with a duty to carry forward what the name already stands for. In 2016, that work took a more cellar-facing form as giovane cantiniere of Corte Cavedini, a role that signals direct involvement with the making side of the business, where the pace is slower, the decisions are precise, and the consequences stay in the bottle.

Where They Are Now

Sales at a family estate is not a detached commercial function; it is part of how the work is represented. In the role of Sales Manager, Marco Cavedini is positioned to speak for CAVEDINI with knowledge of both the cellar and the market, which is the practical requirement of a house that sells not only wine, but a point of view built over time. The through-line in his work is continuity. Agronomy, titolare, and giovane cantiniere all point to a career formed from within the same structure, with each step adding responsibility rather than replacing what came before. That kind of progression keeps the family name active as a working label, while leaving room for Marco Cavedini to shape his own place inside it.

Signature

Valpolicella Ripasso Doc Superiore 2012 is listed among Marco Cavedini’s signature wines. In trade terms, a signature selection is a marker of what an estate chooses to stand behind most clearly, and this one points to the style CAVEDINI wants associated with its name. The vintage serves as a fixed reference point, showing the house through a specific wine rather than through general claims.

In Their Words “I’ve been trying to learn the little secrets, to understand how he worked.” “We eliminated the word quantity completely to work 100% only on quality.”