Cardedu Sardegna Bucce Bianco
$35.00
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Vintage: 2020
Region: Sardinia, Italy
Viticulture: Organic
Grape varieties: Vermentino, Cannonau, and Nasco
Cardedu Sardegna Bucce Bianco. Bucce means skins, as in macerated on the skins. Sour Mirabelle plums, sea salt, and dried white flowers.
Song: Steam Engine by Eels
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER
About Cardedu Sardegna Bucce Bianco
Cardedu Sardegna Bucce Bianco. 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.
About Cardedu
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 coast, where soils are crumbling granite near the coast and schist in ragged-dry cliffs around Jerzu.
Sardinian producers are now catching up in popularity to those of Italy’s other large island, Sicilia. One difference that remains is that Sardinia remains more ‘lost in time.’ Cardedu balances on that edge of being traditional but also thoughtful, especially considering today’s warmer climate. In the last few vintages – extremely hot and dry – Cardedu has made lower alcohol wines by picking earlier and careful vineyard management. The result, thankfully, isn’t 10% alcohol overtly hipster juice without terroir, Sergio says; it’s just wine that tastes more like the cool vintages he enjoyed in the ’70s.