Capichera
Liànti 2023
| Denomination | IGT Isola dei Nuraghi |
|---|---|
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.0% by volume |
| Area | Sardinia (Italy) |
| Grape varieties | 100% Carignano |
Description
A still red from Sardinia, Isola dei Nuraghi IGT, 14% ABV, produced by Capichera. 100% Carignano, 2023 vintage. A wine born from Capichera's passion for native Sardinian grapes, particularly Carignano, grown in Gallura and Sulcis. The vineyards extend over 40 hectares on soils created by granite erosion. It opens intensely with spicy notes of cinnamon, rhubarb, black fruit jelly, and mocha. Ruby red in color with garnet highlights. Enveloping with sweet notes of ripe fruit and fine tannins, its good balance and pleasantness make it a wine worth discovering.
Awards
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2023
92/100
James Suckling is an influential American wine critic and journalist who worked at Wine Spectator for 30 years. He left the magazine in 2010 to start his own website and guidebook (JamesSuckling.com). He specialises in Italian and Bordeaux wines.
Tasting notes
Perfume
Color
Taste
Serve at:
14 -16 °C
Longevity:
05 - 10 years
Decanting time:
1 hour
- Start up year: 1975
- Oenologist: Marco Lostia
- Bottles produced: 250.000
- Hectares: 50
Capichera's story began in the early 20th century, when the grandfather of today's owners inherited a farm of over 50 hectares, in what is now the municipality of Arzachena, in the extreme orth of Sardinia: an area already famed for its suitability for winegrowing. In those days the vineyards produced just enough wine for the family, who lived in the town of Arzachena but liked to spend Spring at the farm at Capichera.
In the Seventies, the father of today's owners planted new vineyards of Vermentino, the typical local grape variety, and built a modern winery for the production of high quality wines.
In 1980 the first wine was sold under the Capichera label, a Vermentino radically different from those already on the market: it was richer, more fragrant, smoother, and longer-lived than other, more important wines.
In the 1980s brothers Fabrizio and Mario began to work in the winery, and although very young, invested their energy in a difficult challenge: making Capichera a leader in top quality wine production.
Today Capichera is a young winery, with its own rich history of development in quantity, and above all quality, of experimentation, innovation and progressive improvement of the products and the production and management processes.
The original 10 hectares of vineyards have become 60 today and others are being planted; production is now around 300,000 bottles, and will increase by 80% over the next few years.
The vineyards belonging to the Capichera winery are of the highest quality possible in Sardinia; this land has been well-known for centuries for its agricultural potential, which has also been confirmed by laboratory analysis. The vines are the result of scrupulous selection in Capichera and in France, by selected nursery gardens working under the supervision of the winery's own experts. Capichera's Vermentino and Carignano vineyards are - and will remain - unparalleled in quality. Read more
| Name | Capichera Lianti 2023 |
|---|---|
| Type | Red still |
| Denomination | Isola dei Nuraghi IGT |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.0% by volume |
| Grape varieties | 100% Carignano |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Sardinia |
| Vendor | Capichera |
| Origin | Sulcis and Gallura Areas. |
| Climate | Altitude: 20 20 m. a.s.l. Exposure: East-South and East. |
| Soil composition | Sandy, clayey and limestone. |
| Cultivation system | Ungrafted espalier and Guyot. |
| Plants per hectare | 5,000. |
| Yield per hectare | 7,000-8,000 kg/hectare. |
| Wine making | It is vinified from pure Carignano grapes, produced in vineyards in Sulcis in the far south of Sardinia. |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |