Cardedu Vermentino di Sardegna Nuo 2022

Cardedu Vermentino di Sardegna Nuo 2022 100% organically farmed Vermentino from 35 acres of vines in San Vito on crumbling granite soils with high levels of quartz, especially feldspar, that gives the soils a reddish tint. Fermented in stainless steel for six days at 15°C, with 6-8 hours of skin contact. Élevage in room-large cement tanks from 1950’s. Bottled unfiltered and unfined. Full malolactic fermentation. 20 mg/L added during the harvest and 20 mg/L added at the end of the vinification. 12.5% alcohol. 1,000 cases made.  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