Cardedu Praja Monica 2017

The vineyards of Cardedu (car-DAY-do) are in Ogliastra, the mountainous and least populous province on the southeast coast of Sardegna; a land of turquoise shimmer and ragged-dry cliffs. Here the Loi family grows and makes wines from the native varieties Vermentino, Cannonau, and Monica. Alberto Loi is one of the island’s better-known traditional producers but doesn’t think of himself as a natural wine producer; he is not in that hipster giro (circle). Yet all wines are fermented with native yeasts, and there’s dry farming without use of herbicides or pesticides.

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