Cardedu 2022 Monica di Sardegna 'Praja'

A staple here at Chambers Street Wines, the autochtonous Monica grape produces wines of poise and sublety. Fermented in cement tanks to preserve the wine's fruit, aromas of hibiscus and blood orange leap from the glass. The palate is a delightful juxtaposition of rusticity and acidity, dangerously quaffable but could grace a table of antipasti perfectly. Bottle unfiltered.

Notes from Cardedu's importer Regal Wines

"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. The Cardedu [car-DAY-do] vineyards are located on the island’s sparsely populated Southeast, where soils are crumbling granite near the coast, and schist in ragged-dry cliffs around Jerzu."

-RT