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Sardinian wine is
Italian wine Italian wine () is produced in every region of Italy. Italy is the country with the widest variety of indigenous grapevine in the world, with an area of under vineyard cultivation, as well as the List of wine-producing regions#Countries, world's ...
produced on the island of
Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...
.T. Stevenson, ed. ''The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia (5th Edition)'' pgs 347-357 Dorling Kindersley (2011)


Grape varieties

* Albaranzeuli bianco *
Albaranzeuli nero Albaranzeuli nero is a red Italian wine grape variety that is primarily found in Sardinia. The grape is often confused with the red Sardinian grape Girò which is believed to be a parent variety of the white grape Albaranzeuli bianco. However rece ...
* Arvesiniadu *
Barbera Sarda Barbera Sarda is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown on the island of Sardinia where it often used to add acidity to blends. Despite the similarities in their names, there is no known close genetic relationship between the Sardinian Barb ...
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Bovale Bovale is a name attributed to two Italian wine grape varieties that are known more commonly by their Spanish names. The most widely planted is Bovale Grande (Carignan/ Mazuelo) which has larger berries, while Bovale Sardo (Graciano) which has ...
* Cannonau (Grenache) *
Girò Girò is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown on Sardinia and is used mostly in the production of fortified wines in the Giro di Cagliari ''Denominazione di origine controllata'' (DOC). The grape was once widely planted throughout Sardi ...
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Greco nero Greco is an Italian wine grape that may be of Greek origin. The name relates to both white (Greco bianco) and black (Greco nero) grape varieties. While there is more land area dedicated to Greco nero, the Greco bianco is the grape most commonl ...
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Malvasia Malvasia (), also known as Malvazia, is a group of wine grape varieties grown historically in the Mediterranean region and Macaronesia, but now grown in many of the winemaking regions of the world. In the past, the names Malvasia, Malvazia, ...
* Monica * Moscato * Nasco *
Nuragus Nuragus (Latin: Valentia) is a small town, in administrative terms a ''comune'' (municipality), in the Province of South Sardinia in the Italian autonomous region of Sardinia, located about north of the local capital Cagliari. Nuragus borders ...
* Pascale di Cagliari *
Vermentino Vermentino is a light-skinned wine grape variety, primarily found in Italian wine. It is widely planted in both Sardinia and Liguria, to some extent in Corsica, in Piedmont under the name Favorita, and in increasing amounts in Languedoc-Roussillo ...
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Vernaccia di Oristano Vernaccia di Oristano is a white Italian wine grape variety grown on the island of Sardinia which makes a wide range of wine styles for the ''Denominazione di origine controllata'' (DOC) of ''Vernaccia di Oristano'' based in the province of Oristan ...


DOC/G zones

*Alghero, produced in the province of Sassari. *Arborea, produced in the province of Oristano. *Campidano di Terralba, produced in the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano. *Cannonau di Sardegna, produced throughout the island. *Carignano del Sulcis, produced in the province of Cagliari. *Girò di Cagliari, produced in the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano. *Malvasia di Bosa, produced in the province of Nuoro. *Malvasia di Cagliari, produced in the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano. *Mandrolisai, produced in the provinces of Nuoro and Oristano. *Monica di Cagliari, produced in the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano. *Monica di Sardegna, produced throughout the island. *Moscato di Cagliari, produced in the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano. *Moscato di Sardegna, produced throughout the island. *Moscato di Sorso Sennori, produced in the province of Sassari. *Nasco di Cagliari, produced in the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano. *Nuragus di Cagliari, produced in the provinces of Cagliari, Nuoro and Oristano. *Sardegna Semidano, produced throughout the island. *Vermentino di Gallura ''DOCG'', produced in the provinces of Nuoro and Sassari. *Vermentino di Sardegna, produced throughout the island. *Vernaccia di Oristano, produced in the province of Oristano.


IGT zones

*Barbagia, produced in the province of Nuoro. *Colli del Limbara, produced in the provinces of Sassari, Olbia-Tempio and Nuoro. *Isola dei Nuraghi. produced throughout the region of Sardegna *Marmilla, produced in the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano. *Nurra, produced in the province of Sassari. *Ogliastra, produced in the provinces of Cagliari and Nuoro. *Parteolla, produced in the province of Cagliari. *Planargia, produced in the provinces of Nuoro and Oristano. *Provincia di Nuoro, produced in the province of Nuoro. *Romangia, produced in the province of Sassari. *Sibiola, produced in the province of Cagliari. *Tharros, produced in the province of Oristano. *Trexenta, produced in the province of Cagliari. *Valle del Tirso, produced in the province of Oristano. *Valli di Porto Pino, produced in the province of Cagliari.


References

{{Sardinia Wine regions of Italy Wine of Sardinia