Nuragus di Cagliari

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Granitic soils and porfido to the SE, regosols/vertisols on arenaria marne in the Parteolla and Trexenta, Quaternary alluvial deposits in the Campidano, brown earths over trachyte in the Sulcis-Iglesiente.
• Paleozoic geological origins: the granitic-metamorphic core of the Sardo-Corsican plate broke away from Europe during the Tertiary, rotating into the Mediterranean.
• Sub-tropical climate in the southern coastal belt: rainfall < 700 mm/year, mean annual temperature > 17 °C, coldest month consistently > 10 °C.
• Warm temperate climate in the central Campidano and Valle del Tirso: mean annual temperature ≥ 15 °C, annual rainfall ≤ 800 mm, at least three months with a mean temperature ≥ 20 °C.

• The Nuragus variety has been cultivated in Sardegna since remote antiquity; the origin of its name remains uncertain, though a wine called "Muscadeddu de Nuragus" is already recorded in eighteenth-century sources. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• The Phoenician introduction hypothesised by ampelography places this variety among the oldest in Sardegna, with dessert-wine uses documented in seventeenth-century notarial records. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Diverse soils—granites, regosols on arenaria marne, Quaternary alluvial deposits, and brown earths over trachyte—lend the wines their characteristic freshness and sapidity. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A1164
• Official trade body site — Laore Sardegna