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Our
vineyard is just outside the historic town of Bosa on the north west coast of
Sardinia, we have 1300 square metres of land mostly set to vines although we do
also have Orange, Mandarin, Fig, Lemon, Kaki, Pear, Apple, Walnut, Cherry and
Hazelnut trees.
We have several varieties of vines the predominant one being
Malvasia. In this zone, only around the Bosa area, this is the most prized grape
variety as it makes the famous Malvasia di Bosa wine. This wine can command a
price of up to €20 per litre and more in the case of exceptional vintages.
Another variety seen less and less around here nowadays is the Zirone or Giro. When grown in
the Bosa area this grape makes a strong almost Port like wine, however there is
so little grown here now that the only way you will taste it is if you can find
a small grower who has made his own wine. We also grow Vermentino, Moscato and
Canonnau grape varieties.
Our vineyard is set on a hillside that, at some time in the
past, was all terraced and set to vines, however over the years the hillside has
almost all gone back to pine wood with the exception of our terraces as
successive owners have abandoned their vineyards in favour of an easier way of
making a living.
We have seen, while we have been here, how the older vineyards
are being abandoned and with it the methods of working that were once universal
on the island, the people we have found to advise and instruct us are all of the
older generation and with the younger Sardinians wanting better paid jobs,
involving less back breaking work, the future of small vineyards here is not
certain. We hope, in our small part, to maintain and somewhat revive our small
piece of Sardinia and make this vineyard an example of viniculture of the
island.
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