About Sardinia Wines
Sardinia is a large Mediterranean island with a wine culture shaped by centuries of Spanish rule. Its finest white is Vermentino di Gallura DOCG, from granite soils in the north, a saline, aromatic wine that suits the island's seafood. The main red is Cannonau di Sardegna DOC, the local name for Grenache, giving warm, herb scented wines from old, drought hardened vines. In the southwest, Carignano del Sulcis DOC makes deep reds from bush vines grown on sand. Cannonau is often linked to the island's famous longevity, and its old vines yield concentrated, structured wines. Vermentino also appears as a broader DOC across the island in a fresher, everyday style. The rare, oxidative Vernaccia di Oristano recalls a Sardinian answer to Sherry. Sea, sun and poor soils give Sardinian wines their distinctive Mediterranean depth and salinity.
Prices are for take away and shipping. The wine bar serves from its own list.
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Wine from Sardinia
To give an impression of just how wild the island of Sardinia is, it suffices to say that its most famous performance was when it played the old wild west in the Sergio Leone’s ‘spaghetti westerns’. Sand, scrub, tough dust and gnarled wood are the norm inland of this, one of the most rugged and hardy of any of the regions of all Europe. However, crucially, it is never a desert in the manner of Arizona or Nevada – it is instead an island-sized California, dry yes but not arid, tough for sure but fertile.
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