Atha Ruja Poderi
Age-old professions like those of blacksmiths, tailors and butchers have become a lost art in the modern world. Nowadays, everything is mass produced, but in tiny pockets of the old world, there are still artisans who resist mass production. Atha Ruja is an artisan winery, dedicated to small-scale production and tailored winemaking. The vineyard was founded in the early ’90s, thanks to Pietro Pittalis and Annita Salis’ shared dream. Their story, like all the most beautiful ones, did not evolve in a linear way like the rows of vines, it was not “love at first sight” but rather the convergence of a two generations-long tradition of winemaking.
Cannonau
Atha Ruja, Terra Sorella
Atha ruja
Composition: 100% Cannonau The original wine that bears the name of the winery.
No. of bottles produced: 7,000 bottles are produced per year to express an honest Cannonau, developed with a power and precise style.
Characteristics: Fresh scents of rosemary and the Mediterranean maquis, notes of red fruit and berries, marasca cherries and myrtle blended with a range of spicy notes. In the mouth, the impact is warm followed by a distinct freshness and notable sapidity. Subtle traces of tannins. Good intensity and persistence.
Serving temperature: 16-18°C
Winemaking: Produced from native varieties, through massal selection of centuries-old vines. Maceration on the skins for ten days and aged in French oak tonneaux for the first cycle. This is followed by refinement in the bottle laid down for at least six months
Terra Sorella
Composition: 100% Cannonau
Vineyard : 2.5 ha, 120m above sea level, north-south exposure, planted in 2003
Soil : alluvial and clayey, medium to loose texture
Training system : spurred cordon with 8-10 buds
Planting density : 4,400 vines/ ha
Yield : 90 quintals/ha
Harvest : second week of September, manual harvest and selection of bunches
No. of bottles produced : 7,000
Vinification : Produced with Cannonau grapes from native varieties, through massal selection of centuries-old vines, cultivated with the “alberello” training system and family-owned. Maceration on the skins for ten days and aged in French oak tonneaux for the first cycle. This is followed by refinement in the bottle laid down for at least six months.
Muristellu
muristellu
Muristellu
Composition: 100% Muristellu
It has long been rumored among wine buffs that the Muristellu vine was somehow imported to the island thanks to the Spanish conquest in the 1400s. More recently, studies have traced its origins to Sardinia. For connoisseurs, this is rare item is worth tracking down. Rich in extracts, full-bodied and textured.
No. of bottles produced : 1,333 numbered bottles
Longevity: 20 years
Characteristics: It unfolds on the nose with notes of crisp red cherries, plums and small inky black berries. Earthy notes and notes of green pepper, flint and graphite. Balsamic notes as it evolves. On the palate it releases its warmth followed by a texture of soft, enveloping tannins and revealing notes of black cocoa
Serving temperature: 16-18°
Winemaking: The result of slow maceration and long aging in small French oak barrels or “caratelli” for three or often four years.
Carignano
Tuluj
Tuluj
Composition: 70% Carignano, 20% Cannonau, 10% Muristellu
No. of bottles produced: 2,000 numbered bottles produced by hand every year.
Longevity: 15 years
Characteristics: To the nose it offers notes of red fruits, marasca cherry and cherry, revealing hints of sweet tobacco and wild liquorice. On the palate it is ample, warm, savoury, with a rich texture of dense and soft tannins that make it particularly elegant.
Serving temperature: 16-18°C
Winemaking: After a slow, twenty-day period of maceration in small steel tanks, it is rested for three years in French oak barriques. The wine is then refined in bottles laid down for at least one year to allow the development of a broad and intense bouquet of scents.
Vermentino
Diorvene
Diorvene
Grape variety
Vermentino 100%
Type
Wine - Still
Alcohol volume
13% vol
Oaked wine
No
Country
Italy
Wine region
Sardegna
Appellation
Vermentino di Sardegna DOC