The best wines from Sardinia in Italy

Sardinia is a paradise island for adventurous wine drinkers. There are dozens of forgotten grape varieties, the wine of which rarely reaches land. The vineyards are spread across the island. Most winegrowers are small artisanal. They produce no more than a few hundred hectoliters per year.

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Today Sardinia is Italian, but in the past centuries it has been inhabited by Spaniards, Byzantines and Arabs. And they have all had their influence on the wine growing. Various Spanish and French grape varieties still grow there, such as Garnacha (called Cannonau here), Carignan (known in Sardinia as Carignano) and Vermentino, better known in the South of France as Rolle.

Malvasia, Cannonau, Vermentino, Carignano and Nuragus are the most important wine grapes of Sardinia. Much less well-known, but at least as interesting are the many dozens of indigenous grape varieties of the island, such as Nasco, Caricagiola, Gregu Nieddu, Barbera Sarda, Carenisca, Monica, Nieddera and Retagliadu. You will occasionally come across them here. If you want to know what they all taste like, you'll have to book a ticket to Sardinia.

Sardinian winemakers not only make dry wines, but also slightly oxidative, fortified sweet wines, especially from Malvasia. Sardinia's main appellations are Alghero, Carignano del Sulcis and Gallura. But they are small. So small that the big importers prefer to ignore them, which is why Sardinia's fine wines rarely leave the island. We currently have five wines from Sardinia in our range. You can view all our wines from Sardinia here.