Giovanni Montisci Cannonau di Sardegna Barrosu Riserva
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This is a 2023 Cannonau di Sardegna Barrosu Riserva, a red wine made from Cannonau (Grenache) in Sardinia, Italy. It comes from Mamoiada, in the mountainous interior of the island, where old vines grow on sandy decomposed granite at high altitude. Chilly nights allow slow, steady ripening that preserves acidity.
Giovanni Montisci farms just two hectares in Mamoiada. He left a job as a mechanic to work vineyard plots inherited from his wife's family, and bottled his first wine from the 2004 vintage. His organically farmed old vines, trained as alberello and grown up to 650 meters, yield wines perfumed with wild fruit, flowers, Mediterranean herbs, and spices. All of his wines are fermented spontaneously, aged in neutral wood, and bottled unfined and unfiltered with minimal SO2.