Bianco 'Bucce' (macerato/orange)

Style

Orange

Type

Still

Winemaker

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.

Appellation

Sardegna

Varieties

Cannonau, Nasco, Vermentino

Viticulture

No synthetic chemical inputs- fertilizers, fungicides, pesticides or herbicides. Hand-harvested.

Farming

Organic

Terroir

The Cardedu [car-DAY-do] vineyards are located 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.

Vineyard

3ha at 820ft. Vermentino and Nasco 13 years old; Cannonau 30 years old. Vines undergo low espalier training.

Vinification

Vermentino and Nasco are left to ferment on the skins for 2 nights. Cannonau harvest follows a few weeks later; grapes are quickly pressed after only a few hours on the skins. The two tanks are blended and left to mature in cavernous cement tanks for a minimum of 6 months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. Fermented with native yeasts. Sulphur: 20 mg/L added during the harvest and 20 mg/L added at the end of the vinification. 500 cases produced.

Features

Bottle, Cork

Available Sizes (L)

0.750

Distribution Area

New Jersey and New York

Cardedu ‘Bucce’ Bianco-ST

Tech Sheets

Tasting Note

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

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