Family
Marilisa Allegrini
Lady Amarone
Marilisa Allegrini is the President of the Group that bears her name. She entered the wine sector in 1983 and has worked tirelessly to make Valpolicella known throughout the world, so much so that she earned the nickname Lady Amarone. In the 2000s, she began a policy of expansion that was accomplished first with the acquisition of 100 hectares in Bolgheri and the establishment of Poggio Al Tesoro in 2001, followed by the acquisition of San Polo in Montalcino in 2007. In 2008, she achieved her childhood dream when she bought Villa Della Torre, one of the most precious and exquisite jewels of the Italian Renaissance.
In 2017, she was the first Italian woman to appear on the cover of Wine Spectator, the world’s most important and influential wine magazine.
From 2016 to 2019 she was a member of the Board of Directors of SACE and a member of the Board of Directors of the Consorzio del Brunello di Montalcino. She is still a member of the Board of the Verona Branch of the Bank of Italy, a member of the Board of Directors of the Consorzio per la Tutela dei vini DOC Bolgheri and a member of the Steering Committee of Fondazione Arena di Verona.
In 2020, the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella appointed her Cavaliere del Lavoro (Order of Merit for Labor).
Giancarlo Mastella
Giancarlo Mastella, a graduate in Education from the University of Padua with a thesis on philosophy, has been involved in the Italian wine sector since 1985. A Corporate Communication Analyst and Copywriter, he boasts numerous consultancy assignments (including Expo 2015 Milan, Italian Wine Pavilion), collaborations with sector magazines, editing of wine publications and planning of cultural events, roles in institutional bodies (including Vice-President Co.re.com, Regional Communications Committee of the Veneto Region) and in various Scientific Committees (including the Italian ‘Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies’, and Atlante dei Territori del Vino Italiano). He is now Vice-President of the Marilisa Allegrini Group, and President and Director of Villa Della Torre in Fumane di Valpolicella, designed by the Renaissance Masters Giulio Romano and Michele Sanmicheli, a Wine&Art Relais since 2009.
Carlotta Mastella Allegrini
Carlotta Mastella Allegrini is Vice President and Brand Ambassador of the Marilisa Allegrini Group. After completing scientific studies, she enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Florence, also undertaking part of her academic journey at the Sorbonne in Paris. She graduated in 2015 with top marks and honors.
Her choice of university stemmed from a deep vocation for caring for people and from a vision of well-being that goes beyond traditional medicine, embracing a holistic perspective in which body, mind, and environment are intertwined. Living in Florence over the years nevertheless allowed her to spend every free moment among the vineyards of Bolgheri and Montalcino, learning something new every day and becoming increasingly passionate about these projects, which she now considers places of the heart, as well as ethical and responsible spaces to be protected with the utmost attention and care.
Her dream, also thanks to her background, is to create new hospitality spaces where wine and health, nature and humanity, art and holistic well-being can be connected. Places that generate balance and peace in the people who stay, live, and work there.
Caterina Sofia Mastella Allegrini
Caterina Sofia Mastella Allegrini is Vice-President and Director of Marketing and Communication of the Marilisa Allegrini Group. She graduated in Philosophy in 2015 and in Philosophical Sciences in 2018 summa cum laude from the Vita-Salute San Raffaele university where she was a student of Massimo Cacciari and Francesco Valagussa. At the same university, in 2023, she obtained the title of Doctor of Philosophy, with a thesis entitled ‘The notion of the ‘classical’. History of the idea of classicism. The problem of studying the humanities’; she is still a member of the Centre of Research in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Diaporein Arts.
In 2019, she was an intern at Intesa Sanpaolo’s Global Transaction Banking department, working in the Business Development division. In 2022, she was included in the list of 40 Under 40s in the wine sector by Fortune Italia.
She has been involved in corporate life since her childhood and has always been engaged in marketing, communication and event organization, with the aim of uniting the world of wine with the world of art.
