Sannas
지역: 이탈리아 Sardinia, Italy
1년 총 생산량: 약 8.000
Sardinia is my hometown and I have been drinking Cannonau wine ever since.
I imported in Korea Pier Graziano Sannas Cannonau not just because is a well-made and good Cannonau but because Pier Graziano wines perfectly adhere and represent the territory where it is made and makes me go back to my island on each sip.
Sannas winery isn’t just in Sardinia, it is in Mamoiada, a very small village over the mountains in the heart of the island. This is a place lost in space and in time. Here looks like life is lived in another dimension, out of the tumultuous passing of time. Here just wines matter.
Mamoiada has 2.500 habitants and 200 wineries. Among these 200 small wineries only 35 wineries bottle with their own labels while the other wineries either sell grapes or make wines in carboy. The entire village economy is about making wine.
In the coffee shop (We call them bar in Italian) at breakfast, or sipping a coffee after lunch, people just talk about wine, about weather, if the grapes are ripened, when they will start pruning or when they will harvest this year. You will not hear any national or world news, nothing about the latest popstar, and of course, not about Serie A football; Just about wine.
The vineyards are scattered surrounding the village with an altitude between 650 and 800 meters above sea level. The soils are of granitic origin that dissolved and from stone became soil gifting the typical salinity and minerality that distinguish Mamoiada Cannonau from the others.
Here the wineries harvest only Cannonau and just a small percentage of Granazza a local white grape that was grown in the middle of Cannonau field.
Pier Graziano was a writer and a poet, but nobody was interested in his writing. However, people became extremely interested in his own wine. His wines are sold today is some of the best and finest restaurants in the world, Historical restaurants such as Roscioli in Roma or you find them in the wine list of 3 stars Michelin restaurants such as Reale by Niko Romito.
He does everything manually to cave in with nature, to make a wine that is a real Cannonau, a Sardinian Cannonau of Mamoiada. A Cannonau from granitic soil coming from a century old vineyard. His Cannonau is not a stylistic formula made by enology to appease WSET students that just read in books how Cannonau shall taste like but the Cannonau of that vintage from that specific terroir.
Not only Pier Graziano wines are territorial but also his personality and appearance. He is an extravagant and interesting character. He opens wine corks with his own sharp Sardinian knife, always ready in his pocket, he wears traditional clothes, he is an avid hunter, and you will spot him with his shotgun in the Mediterranean wood near the village.
Drink his wine and you will meet him.
