The Cantina di Santadi cooperative was founded in 1960, and today has over 300 members. De ca. 500 hectares of vineyards that are the basis of Santadi’s production are spread over 9 different municipalities in the southwestern corner of Sardinia: Giba, Masainas, Nuxis, Perdaxius, Piscinas, Santadi, Sant’Anna Arresi, Tratalias, and Villaperuccio. In addition, the southwest part of Sardinia offers some of the most beautiful coastlines and a very varied and beautiful landscape. On the stretch from the capital Cagliari to the city of Santadi you will find the Red Mountains, which have given name to the wine Rocca Rubia.
Santadi’s oenologist Davide Pera in collaboration with Giacomo Tachis, the man behind Sassicaia and Tignanello, produced full-bodied and well-structured wines of great class, such as Rocca Rubia and Terre Brune. The latter has also brokered a lease agreement between Santadi and Incisa della Rocchetta. It is thus Santadi that adds fields to the wines from Agricola Punica.
Santadi’s top wine Terre Brune has on several occasions received three glasses, which is the highest award, from the wine guide Gambero Rosso, and there is something very special about that wine. The vineyard, from which the wine originates, looks more like a sandbox with small low bushes than a classic vineyard. The vines, which are more than a hundred years old, are not grafted onto American vines, as is otherwise the case, and the soil must be found in the soil conditions. The high content of sand means that the wine lice cannot survive and thus a grafting is not necessary. The vines, therefore, stand free like small trees – what is called “alberello”.
Common to Santadi’s wines is that there is an exceptionally good relationship between price and quality.