Cardedu Bucce Orange Vermentino Sardegna

Description

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 islands sparsely populated Southeast,on crumbling granite soils near the coast, and schist in the ragged-dry hills and cliffs around Jerzu.

Buccemeans skins, as in macerated on the skinsmacerato sulle bucce. Thismaceratoorange 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. Cozzeanyone?

Annual Production: 500 cases