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2021 Vermentino di Sardegna “Stria”
Vigne RadaIn her book Cucina, Marcella Hazan adapted a soup of mussels, cranberry beans, celery, and basil she had once enjoyed in a restaurant in the northeastern Sardinian port town of Olbia. “When I was working on seafood recipes one summer,” she wrote, “it was the one dish that, once tasted, my friends asked me to make again and again.” Across the island, along Sardinia’s northwestern coast, Vigne Rada makes this bianco that serves as a perfect accompaniment to Hazan’s rendition of the dish. The Vermentino’s crispness and saline notes marry beautifully with the plump mussels, while the supporting flavors of ripe and freshly picked orchard fruit wonderfully complement the soup’s flavorful, hearty beans and spice.
—Tom Wolf
Wine Type: | white |
Vintage: | 2021 |
Bottle Size: | 750mL |
Blend: | Vermentino |
Appellation: | Vermentino di Sardegna |
Country: | Italy |
Region: | Sardinia |
Producer: | Vigne Rada |
Winemaker: | Bardino family |
Vineyard: | 8 years average, 1.75 ha |
Soil: | Alluvial with riverbed stones and quartz; clay, limestone, chalk |
Aging: | Aged 3-4 months in stainless steel tank on fine lees, regular stirring of the lees |
Farming: | Sustainable |
Alcohol: | 14% |
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About The Producer
Vigne Rada
About The Region
Sardinia
Our first foray into Sardegna is very recent, and it only took one trip to fall in love with the island, its culture, and its wines. Similar to its northerly neighbor, Corsica, there is a strong regional identity here that goes far beyond its official status as one of Italy’s twenty regions. Its people are proud, strong-willed, and deeply attached to their traditions—a distinctive character often seen with island people and accentuated by its long history of invasions and outside rule.
This tumultuous past has resulted in diverse influences—Greek, Roman, Aragonese, Catalan, and Ligurian, just to name a few—that have shaped the island’s culture, language, cuisine, and wines over many centuries. While Vermentino and Cannonau (aka Grenache) reign, Sardegna also boasts a number of indigenous grapes that are capable of expressing something unique in its abundant variety of terroirs.
The Mediterranean plays a major role, providing cooling, salty breezes to coastal areas, while the rugged, mountainous interior is home to high-altitude sites where wines retain freshness in spite of the southerly latitude. The granitic highlands of Gallura and Barbagia come to mind as some of its most qualitative zones, but a range of soils, elevations, and varying distance to the sea mean that the island is capable of producing wines in all styles, from crisp whites to powerful reds and exquisite vini dolci.
The three growers we represent bring something new to the table, something fascinating that is not found elsewhere in Italy or even in nearby Corsica. Their wines evoke the rustic beauty of this fascinating island civilization, and of course, pair perfectly with the local cuisine, be it seafood-based or the hearty, earthy specialties of its interior.
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Kermit once said...
Kermit once said...
Let the brett nerds retire into protective bubbles, and whenever they thirst for wine it can be passed in to them through a sterile filter. Those of us on the outside can continue to enjoy complex, natural, living wines.
Inspiring Thirst, page 236