Casa Vini Caldirola (or the Caldirola Wine House) sponsored an Italian professional road bicycle racing team between 1998 and 2004, with a gap in 2002, where the main sponsor was Tacconi Sport. In 2005 the team was formally disbanded, but many riders continued in the new Liquigas-Bianchi UCI ProTour team.

Team name

As professional racing teams change name with their sponsors, the name of the team has varied in its lifetime.

Year Name
2004 Vini Caldirola–Nobili Rubinetterie
2003 Vini Caldirola–So.di
2002 Tacconi Sport–Emmegi
2001 Tacconi Sport–Vini Caldirola
2000 Vini Caldirola–Sidermec
1999 Vini Caldirola
1998 Vini Caldirola

Notable riders

Francesco Casagrande was one of Vini Caldirola's best riders.
Stefano Garzelli won several stages of the Giro d'Italia while riding for Vini Caldirola.
Name Nationality Years
Francesco Casagrande  Italy 1999-2000, 2004
Romāns Vainšteins  Latvia 1999–2000, 2003
Stefano Garzelli  Italy 2003-2004
Pavel Tonkov  Russia 2004
Serhiy Honchar  Ukraine 1999
Guido Trentin  Italy 1998–2000
Eddy Mazzoleni  Italy 2001–2003
Matthew White  Australia 1999–2000
Andrej Hauptman  Slovenia 1999–2003
Gabriele Balducci  Italy 2001–2003
David George  South Africa 2001
Nicola Minali  Italy 2001-2002
Dario Frigo  Italy 2002
Sylwester Szmyd  Poland 2001–2002
David de la Fuente  Spain 2003
Fred Rodriguez  United States 2003
Marco Zanotti  Italy 2004
Dario Andriotto  Italy 2003–2004
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