A particularly important meeting as it also provided for the renewal of offices for the three-year period 2020-2022. As usual, the newly elected Board of Directors appointed the new president. The preferences were unanimously expressed for Ruenza Santandrea , a well-known and highly appreciated name in the regional, national and European wine scene for the important positions held in the last fifteen years in the sector. Santandrea, the first female president in the history of the Consorzio Vini di Romagna in 58 years of the institution (it was founded in 1962), succeeds Giordano Zinzani, who leaves after four consecutive three-year terms.
« Aware of going to cover this important role in a decidedly complicated historical moment for the Romagna wine, and not only, I hope in everyone's commitment to give new impetus to our sector - declares the new President Santandrea - Everyone can make their own contribution and together we must start to think immediately about what actions and what strategies to put in place to promote our wines, children of a territory rich in culture, traditions and gastronomy . I therefore thank you for the confidence expressed by the BoD in me and now at work, united and compact. Only in this way will we be able to enhance our products, well beyond Covid-19 ».
To support Santandrea in the work of the Wines of Romagna Consortium will be the reconfirmed Vice Presidents Scipione Giuliani (Poderi dal Nespoli, Civitella di Romagna) and Mauro Sirri (Celli, Bertinoro) and the new Board of Directors formed by: Francesco Bordini (Villa Papiano , Modigliana), Silvia Casali (Tenuta Casali, Mercato Saraceno), Fabio Castellari (Cantina di Faenza, Faenza), Andrea Achille Emiliani (Agrintesa, Faenza), Riccardo Maraldi (Caviro, Faenza), Roberto Monti (Cantina Forlì-Predappio, Forlì ), Alessandro Morini (Poderi Morini, Faenza), Marco Nannetti (Terre Cevico, Lugo), David Navacchia (Tre Monti, Imola), Alberto Perdisa (Insia - Palazzona di Maggio, Ozzano dell'Emilia), Enrico Prugnoli (Cantina Sociale di Cesena, Cesena), Daniele Rossi (Cantina dei Colli Romagnoli, Faenza), Sandro Santini (Tenuta Santini, Coriano), Roberto Sarti (Caviro, Faenza), Matteo Vingione (Cavim, Sasso Morelli).
Faentina, born in 1954, married, with two children and two grandchildren, Ruenza Santandrea, before taking on the role of President of the Cevico Group and of the subsidiaries from 2005 to 2017, carried out professional activity above all as a management consultant and auditor auditor, collaborating in the establishment of important consortia in the production world.
During Cevico's presidency, he is also responsible for the national wine sector of the Alliance of Cooperatives, launching Vivite, the cooperative wine festival, and promoting European cooperative wine coordination with French and Spanish people.
He participated in the group of five experts who worked for the Ministry of Agriculture in the construction of the Expo Milano 2015 wine pavilion. In addition, he held various roles in trade unions associations, both at local and national level. He received the Romagna Wine Festival prize of "Prophet at home" and the "Voice of Wine 2019" prize at the WBWE in Amsterdam for the work done in support of the European wine world. After leaving the presidency of Cevico at the end of the fourth term, and with it also the related offices both at company and trade union level, he held the role of President of "Bolè srl", a company born to produce and launch the sparkling wine obtained from Romagna Trebbiano DOC; office still in progress.
