Vermentino shines in stony Sardinia—this one is rich in salty minerality, touches of green and stone fruit, and high acid. It’s a lot, in the best way. A few hours of skin contact adds appropriate depth.
- Sergio Loi is a 4th generation traditional Sardinian producer, whose family winery from the early 900s has always practiced no chemical farming and minimum intervention in the cellar.
- The Cardedu wines (named for their vineyard) are winemaker Sergio Loi’s line of more traditional Sardinian wines, made from local grapes grown 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.
Connects with:
- A heaping anchovy toast, drenched in lemon.
- A day on the lake, sun glinting off the water.
- Reading Italo Calvino.