Highlights
Cardedu Bucce Orange Vermentino Sardegna
Varietals: Vermentino, Cannonau, Nasco
Sergio Loi is a 4th generation traditional Sardinian producer, whose family winery from the early 1900s has always practiced no chemical farming and minimum intervention in the cellar. The Cardedu [car-DAY-do] vineyards are located on the island’s sparsely populated Southeast, on crumbling granite soils near the coast, and schist in the ragged-dry hills and cliffs around Jerzu.
Bucce means skins, as in macerated on the skins macerato sulle bucce. This macerato orange wine is very drinky: sour Mirabelle plums, sea salt, and dried white flowers float on bass notes of coastal wild rosemary and myrtle, i.e. macchia mediterranea. Cozze anyone?
Annual Production: 500 cases
Tasting Notes
sour Mirabelle plums, sea salt, dried white flowers, coastal wild rosemary, myrtle
- BrandCardedu
- CountryItaly
- RegionSardinia
- TypeOrange Wine
- Size750ml
- ABV 12.5%
- Winemaking Unfiltered or unfined
- Winemaking Native yeast or wild fermented
- Winemaking Natural
- Aging Concrete aged
- SKU 210000019742
Grapes & winemaking
- Grapes
- Vermentino, Cannonau, Nasco (percentages unspecified)
- Farming
- Organically farmed
- Winemaking
- Natural wine ; Unfiltered ; Unfined ; Native yeast
- Aging
- Minimum 6 months in cement tanks