The company
Tenuta La Sabbiosa rises facing the sea of Sardinia, among the dunes of Sant’Antioco Island. “An island within the island” that until the 1980s was covered with tinyCarignano vineyards. Small plots of bush vines, cultivated “like gardens” up to the beaches, among the dunes and junipers, on sandy soils lashed year-round by the strong and salty mistral winds. Vines that have always been on ungrafted rootstock because this is one of the few areas in Europe where the terrible plague of phylloxera has not taken hold, destroying man’s centuries-old work. The great wine tradition of the island, however, began to disappear from the late eighties, when low productive yields began to clash withmarket logic. Thousands of unique monumental vines in the world were thus uprooted, with a hundred or more years of age. Here and there, however, thanks to the passion and tenacity of the elderly, small vineyard plots have survived and from one of these began the production of “Tenuta La Sabbiosa” wines. The company’s oenological intent has always been to return to the essence of Carignano: “an exceptional wine because the plant from which it derives has suffered thirst, heat, wind and perhaps even a bit of hunger” said G. Tachis “a wine with low acidity and very high pH, rich in noble sweet tannins, round, graceful that ages slowly and sweetly, just like the great sages.” Here
