Angelo Antonio
Polenta and Palma Carola Spinsanti emigrated from Italy to Argentina
in October 1902. Angelo Antonio was born on July 24, 1874, and
Palma Carola in 1881 in the Santa María della Grazia
parish in Ancona. They married on January 24, 1901.
Angelo was familiar with farm work and the couple worked in the fields, but the
economic situation in the country was not good. In search of a better life, they
decided to take their young child and move to Argentina.
The Pulenta couple
travelled with some
friends, the
Costalero family from the
delle Marche region. They stayed only two days at the "Hotel de los Inmigrantes" in
Buenos Aires
because other friends, the Furiassi family, had told them that
they should go West, to the Province of Mendoza.
Their name changed just by coming to Argentina: Polenta became Pulenta.
Their first home was in Mendoza where Palma gave birth to María, Darío, Augusto, Casimira and Rosa, brothers and sisters to Quinto, their eldest son. Angelo and his wife worked as contractors and after a time established a grocery.
But real growth came
only after they moved to San Juan. In March 1912, Angelo Antonio
and his family boarded a train to San Isidro, Angaco Sur -today
the San Martín District of San Juan- because he had been employed by "La Germania", a company owned by Germán Wiedenburg, to improve the barren soils of the area.
In San Juan, Quinto's other brothers and sisters -Adelina, Angela, Antonio and Alfredo- were born
Angelo Antonio worked very hard for La Germania and in May 1914 bought his first piece of land. There he built his home and a small winery - his first step in viticulture - establishing a family-owned company that would never cease to grow.
The family business became a corporation in 1941 under the name of Pulenta Hermanos, and in the 1960's was renamed Peñaflor Sociedad Anómina. By the end of the 1990's and after the acquisition of Bodegas Trapiche, the group was one of the leading holdings in the country.
Ever since his youth,
Don Augusto, worked very hard in tending his vineyards and producing
his wines. Although he never graduated as an oenologist, DON AUGUSTO
kept detailed records of each wine blend. All the knowledge he
acquired throughout a long life of working hard and learning the
secrets of wine, he conveyed to his children.
Augusto's family and business life were in San Juan, from where he managed the operations of the Peñaflor company in the Province. When he passed away, his eldest son, Mario Augusto, succeeded him.
When Mario Augusto died in 1988, his children, Mario Augusto in San Juan and Ernesto Enrique in Buenos Aires, continued with the family legacy and other activities in the grape growing and wine production business.
A few years ago, strategic decisions led Mario and Ernesto Pulenta and their families to sell their stocks to the Peñaflor company and establish a new family business.
Today, the active involvement of Don Augusto's grandchildren in the family-owned vineyards and production of premium wines, has brought new life to BODEGA AUGUSTO PULENTA .
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