Sun and fertile land: the secrets of the Sardinian wine

The viticulture is rooted in the traditions of Sardinia. Thousands years of experience, the sun, a quite fertile land and a favorable weather, have given to the farmers excellent harvest and good wines. In the last years The new technologies and the experience of foreign oenologist, have allowed sardinian wine producers to perform a qualitative leap, often by investing on the quality rather than on the quantity.
It is casual that numerous Sardinian wines are winning even international prizes and always more important market shares. This does not mean handocrafts small wineries produce wines are of bad quality, actually you could taste really good ones in many farmhouses.

In several localities, the bitter soil gives bunches of grape rich in tannin and sugars, hence the final product generally has a high alcoholic gradation. A large number of farms produce wine for their family use and for selling in small quantity to friends and relatives. The weather and the land typology have led to different specialization according to the geographic zones. Here the tendril mostly cultivated, territory-to-territory.

• Anglona: Bovale Sardo, Moscato and Vermentino.
• Arborea: Bovale di Spagna, Cannonau, Monica, Moscato, Semidano, Vermentino and Vernaccia.
• Barbagie: Cannonau.
• Barigadu: Cannonau, Monica, Moscato and Nuragus.
• Baronìe: Cannonau, Vermentino and Vernaccia (Onifai).
• Campidano: Girò, Malvasia, Monica, Moscato, Nasco and Nuragus.
• Gallura: Moscato and Vermentino (but a quality production of red grape permit to make also a good I.G.T. called Colli del Limbara).
• Gerrei: Cannonau, Monica, Vermentino.
• Logudoro-Meilogu: Bovale Sardo, Cagnulari, Cannonau and Vermentino.
• Mandrolisai: Bovale Sardo, Mandrolisai, Monica, Moscato and Nuragus.
• Marghine-Planargia: Cannonau, Malvasia and Monica.
• Marmilla: Cannonau, Monica, Moscato, Nuragus and Semidano.
• Monte Acuto-Goceano: Bovale Sardo and Cagnulari.
• Montiferru: Malvasia and Monica.
• Nuorese: Cannonau.
• Nurra: Cannonau, Cagnulari and Torbato.
• Ogliastra: Cannonau.
• Sinis peninsula: Bovale, Cannonau, Monica, Moscato, Vermentino and Vernaccia.
• Sarcidano: Cannonau, Monica, Nuragus and Vermentino.
• Sarrabus: Cannonau, Monica and Vermentino.
• Sassarese-Romangia: Bovale Sardo, Cagnulari, Cannonau and Vermentino.
• Sulcis-Iglesiente: Carignano.
• Trexenta: Cannonau, Malvasia, Monica, Moscato, Nuragus and Vermentino.