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Le Origini at Santadi

Stefania del Giudice — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:10:33 +0000

The Origini line at Santadi

We are excited to present you the new Origini line.
Origini is a renewed visual identity and new labels of Santadi‘s historic “Classic” line,

This update represents a significant evolution of their existing wines, with a strong emphasis on Sardinian native grape varieties and origin.

The Origini line consists of four wines, all featuring new labels and packaging.

Three (of the four wines) with new labels and packaging will be at our stand at ProWein:

Vermentino di Sardegna DOC Villa Solais
Cannonau di Sardegna DOC Pari Loriga
Nuragus di Cagliari DOC Pedraia

The 4th wine, Monica di Sardegna Antigua wil be released from April 2026.

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I Migliori Vini della Sardegna 2026

Stefania del Giudice — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:14:15 +0000

I Migliori Vini della Sardegna: high ratings for the beautiful wines of Cantina Santadi.

Nuragus di Cagliari DOC Pedraia
2024

93 Points

“Brilliant straw yellow tending to golden. Nose: Intense scent of yellow fruit together with buttery notes. Palate: Round and delicate, it has a nice mellow feel in the mouth.”

**Carignano del Sulcis DOC Grotta Rossa 2023**

96,9 Points

“ntense ruby red. Nose: Intense fruity scent with a final note of liquorice. Palate: An elegant wine, with good body in the mouth.”

Monica di Sardegna DOC Antigua
2024

98,1 Points

“Ruby red with purple tinges. Nose: Good complexity of aromas, with hints of blackberry and blueberry in the nose. Palate: A mellow, structured wine, with a pleasant feel in the mouth.”

Metodo Classico Brut 20ma Cuvée
Villa Solais

98,2 Points

“Bright straw yellow with golden highlights. Creamy foam with a fine, persistent perlage. Aroma: Intense minerality with elegant notes of hawthorn and white fruits evolving into bread crust and hazelnut. Palate: Smooth and elegant at the same time, with a minerality and savory character. The finish offers the richness of sun-ripened apricots..”

CANTINA DI SANTADI

The winery is located in the Sulcis area, in South-western Sardinia, just a few miles as the crow flies from the dazzling beaches and white sand dunes of Porto Pino.
It was established in 1960, and after some start-up difficulties, a new management gave it a decisive boost, driven by strong determination which fanned enthusiasm and passion.
The Winery embarked on an ambitious programme, adopting new strategies and clear targets, streamlining its operations and issuing coherent guidelines to its member grape growers.

The wines: Sulcis’ Excellences
“Good wine is born in the vineyard – our job is to enhance grape quality through skilful cultivation, and then, in the winery, to make the best use of this gift of nature.”

-Cantina di Santadi-

Cantina Santadi processes mainly black grapes, about 75% of total production.
The most important varieties are Carignano, Monica, Sangiovese, Syrah, Merlot and Bovaleddu as regards the reds, and Vermentino, Nuragus, Chardonnay and Nasco for the whites.
Vineyard cultivation methods are carefully designed to maintain low production per plant and so maximise grape quality.
Wise use of French barriques gives a perfect, harmonious finishing touch to the development of these superb wine

…discover more…
take a look at their website

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Cala Silente: the essence of Sardinian Vermentino

Petra Pelle — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:31:04 +0000

Cala Silente: The Essence of Sardinian Vermentino

Cala Silente is a distinguished white wine from Sardinia, Italy. It is crafted by the renowned Cantina Santadi winery. This wine is a 100% Vermentino di Sardegna DOC. It truly showcases the potential of Sardinia’s signature white grape. Its taste captures the unique spirit of its Mediterranean origin.

From the Heart of Sulcis, Sardinia

Cantina Santadi is located in the Sulcis district of southwestern Sardinia. The winery was founded in 1960 in the town of Santadi. In 2025, it proudly marks its 65th anniversary. The cooperative is a standard-bearer for quality Sardinian wine.

Unique terroir: Their Cala Silente (“Silent Cove”) perfectly expresses this unique terroir. Vineyards in Sulcis benefit from a coastal climate. Summers are warm and dry, while winters remain mild.

The grapes grow in sandy and clay-loam soils. This specific soil composition gives the wine its distinct character.

Winemaking Process

The winemaking for Cala Silente is meticulous. The grapes are carefully selected Vermentino. They are harvested in early September in Sardinia. The grapes undergo a gentle pressing. Fermentation happens in cool stainless steel tanks. This process preserves the wine’s delicate fruit aromas. The wine then ages on its lees. This technique adds complexity, structure, and a richer mouthfeel.

Tasting Profile

-Appearance: Cala Silente shows a brilliant straw yellow color. It has subtle greenish-gold reflections.

-Aroma: The nose is intense and inviting. It offers a bouquet of fresh fruit aromas. You will notice crisp green apple, ripe peach, and zesty citrus. Hints of flowers and Sardinian minerality complete the scent.

–Palate: The palate is both elegant and full-bodied. It balances fresh acidity with a pleasing roundness. Flavors of stone fruit and citrus carry through. A characteristic saline note points to its coastal Sardinian origin. The finish is long, persistent, and refreshing.

Food Pairing Suggestions: Cala Silente is a versatile wine for food pairing. Its crispness is perfect for rich seafood and shellfish. This makes it a classic pairing choice. The wine also complements flavorful white meats and poultry. Try it with pasta dishes using vegetable or light cream sauces. For a true taste of Sardinia, pair it with local food. Enjoy it with Sardinian specialties like fregola with clams or grilled sea bass.

Each bottle of Cala Silente captures the spirit of Sardinia. It is a true reflection of its sunny Sulcis terroir. Cantina Santadi showcases the elegant potential of the Vermentino grape from this unique part of Italy.

Concours Mondial de Bruxelles

The Concours Mondial de Bruxelles is a prestigious international competition, established in 1994, known for its rigorous standards and commitment to identifying the world’s finest wines and spirits. Split into various sessions and selections throughout the year, it evaluates over 15,000 entries annually. An exclusively professional tasting panel ensures a blind tasting process focused solely on quality, making the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles a globally recognized benchmark for excellence in wine and spirits.

Italy delivered an exceptional performance during the 32nd edition of the prestigious Concours Mondial de Bruxelles. With a total of 351 awards, the country confirmed its top position in the wine world. The Italian wines were decorated with 15 Grand Gold Medals, 132 Gold Medals, and 204 Silver Medals.

This year, the competition for red and white wines took place from June 10 to 12, 2025, in Yinchuan, the heart of China’s Ningxia wine region. An international jury of 375 experts blind-tasted over 7,165 wines. These wines came from 49 different countries, highlighting the global scale of the event.

The Cala Silente 2024 from Cantina di Santadi got a gold medal at this competition.

For more information about the winery, take a look at their website:

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Cantina di Santadi: a new label for Villa Solais

Stefania del Giudice — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:46:28 +0000

Cantina di Santadi: a new label for Villa Solais.

NEW LOOK, SAME SOUL!

“Villa Solais is getting a makeover!

Since 1982, our Vermentino di Sardegna has been synonymous with tradition and quality, a wine that tells the unique perfumes and flavors of our land. Santadi presents the new bottle of Villa Solais: a restyling that unites past and future to offer you an even more special experience.

Renewed form with an elegant and modern design and a label that pays homage to our origins, with a reminder of the historical image that made Villa Solais iconic, now reinterpreted in a colourful, fresh and cheerful style.”

– Cantina Santadi-

NEW

OLD

VERMENTINO DI SARDEGNA VILLA SOLAIS DOC

PLACE OF ORIGIN: From vineyards located in 5 municipalities of the lower Sulcis district, with counter-espalier training, on different types of soils.

SOIL COMPOSITION: Medium mixture, tending to sandy or clayey.

GRAPE VARIETIES: Vermentino 85%, Nuragus 15%.

CLIMATE: Hot and dry summers, mild winters.

VINICATION AND DEVELOPMENT: The hand-picked grapes are soft-pressed, and the must obtained is fermented in stainless steel tanks under controlled temperature, so as to preserve its fragrance and aromas. The wine is then left in contact with its lees for several months before being bottled.

TASTING NOTES: Brilliant straw yellow, with green and golden tinges. Fresh and pleasant on the nose. On the palate delivers a nice fresh finish together with an attractive mineral note.

MATCHINGS: Its favourite matches are seafood first courses and white meat. Especially pleasant when served very cool, also as an aperitif.

Cantina di Santadi is located in the Sulcis area, in South-western Sardinia, just a few miles as the crow flies from the dazzling beaches and white sand dunes of Porto Pino. It was established in 1960, and after some start-up difficulties, a new management gave it a decisive boost, driven by strong determination which fanned enthusiasm and passion.
The winery embarked on an ambitious programme, adopting new strategies and clear targets, streamlining its operations and issuing coherent guidelines to its member grape growers.

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Santadi’s awards’ update

Stefania del Giudice — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:09:32 +0000

Santadi‘s awards’ update: nice awards for Santadi’s wines in the 2025 edition of the Guida I Migliori Vini della Sardegna by VinodaBere

GRAPES: Carignano 95%, Bovaleddu 5%

TASTING NOTES:
Colour: Deep ruby red, light garnet tinges.
Nose: Rare, complex notes: plums and blueberries, sweet spices, bay, juniper, tobacco and chocolate.
Taste: rich, warm, mellow, fruity and spicy notes, suave tannins.

FOOD PAIRING: Excellent with roasted or grilled meat and game, aromatic and spiced dishes, medium to long seasoned cheese.

99,4/100

GRAPES: Typical local white grapes.

ORGANOLEPTIC CHARACTERISTICS:
Color: amber color accompanied by a great consistency.
Nose: intense bouquet of honey, caramel, vanilla sugar and cloves.
Taste: persistent, balanced in the mouth, with a never cloying sweetness and a finish reminiscent of orange blossoms.

FOOD PAIRING: From fried ricotta ravioli seasoned with honey, to well-matured cheeses. Enhances any type of dessert.

99/100

GRAPES: Carignano 100%

TASTING NOTES:
Colour: Deep, almost solid ruby red.
Nose: Intense fruity notes of blackberry, blueberry, vanilla, myrtle, leather and liquorice. Taste: Big and velvety, great structure and long aromatic finish, a full-bodied wine.

FOOD PAIRING: It matches red meats, wild boar, roast suckling pig and mature Pecorino cheese.

96,8/100

GRAPE VARIETIES: Carignano 100%

TASTING NOTES:
Colour: Bright rosé with cherry tinges.
Nose: Elegantly fruity, with hints of forest berries and strawberry.
Taste: Harmonious and exuberant in the mouth, with medium-long finish.

FOOD PAIRING: It enhances gourmet seafood starters, delicate first courses and white meats.

96,7/100

GRAPES: Cannonau 90%, Carignano 10%

TASTING NOTES:
Colour: intense ruby red, tending to garnet.
Nose: Mediterranean notes, complex, blueberry and ripe-blackberry aromas, spices tending sweet, tobacco and chocolate.
Palate: warm, soft, sweet tannins of rare intensity

FOOD PAIRING: It matches well structured dishes, such as roasted and grilled meat, fish, game and cheese.

96/100

CANTINA DI SANTADI

The Cantina di Santadi Winery is located in the Sulcis area, in South-western Sardinia, just a few miles as the crow flies from the dazzling beaches and white sand dunes of Porto Pino.

It was established in 1960, and after some start-up difficulties, a new management gave it a decisive boost, driven by strong determination which fanned enthusiasm and passion.

Thus the Winery embarked on an ambitious programme, adopting new strategies and clear targets, streamlining its operations and issuing coherent guidelines to its member grape growers.

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Silver for Santadi

Petra Pelle — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:13:06 +0000

Silver for Santadi’s Rocca Rubia

Santadi’s Rocca Rubia 2020 received a silver medal at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2023

The Cantina di Santadi Winery is located in the Sulcis area, in South-western Sardinia, just a few miles from the dazzling beaches and white sand dunes of Porto Pino.

Wise use of French barriques gives a perfect, harmonious finishing touch to the development of these superb wines. The great reds: Terre Brune, Rocca Rubia, Noras, Araja, Grotta Rossa and Antigua, are accompanied by stylish whites: Villa di Chiesa, Cala Silente, Pedraia, Villa Solais, Latinia.

The Rocca Rubia 2020 got a silver medal at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2023.

Rocca Rubia:

Classification: Carignano del Sulcis DOC Riserva

Grapes: 100% Carignano

Harvesting: by hand, starting in late September and ending around mid October

Wine and food pairing:

The wine matches very well with red meat, wild boar, roast suckling pig and matured Pecorino cheese.

VINICATION AND DEVELOPMENT: After stemming and crushing, the grapes are fermented and macerated for 12-14 days in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperature of 25-28 °C. During this period, the must is frequently pumped up, thus fully absorbing the noble tannins typical of bush-grown carignano. After malolactic fermentation, the wine is transferred to small, fine grained 1st and 2nd-passage French oak casks for 10-12 months, to further develop its biochemical and chemical-physical properties, aroma and taste. Further aging in the bottle for several months enables early bouquet development.

TASTING NOTES:

Colour: Deep, almost solid ruby red.

Nose: Intense fruity notes of blackberry, blueberry, vanilla, myrtle, leather and liquorice.

Palate: Big and velvety, great structure and long aromatic finish, a full-bodied wine.

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Falstaff’s Wein Guide Italien 2023

Petra Pelle — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:36:51 +0000

Falstaff published the ‘Wein Guide Italien 2023.’ Completely dedicated to Italian wines. In this guide more than 400 wine producers are described and awarded and also some of our associated producers are mentioned.

SARDEGNA: SANTADI

Veneto: Zenato, Masottina and Tenuta Sant’Antonio

Tuscany: Fattoria Ambra, Castello di Bolgheri, Tenuta di Gracciano della Seta, Pietroso and Tenuta Sette Ponti

Piemonte: Massolino

Marche: Garofoli

All results from the tasting of the 17th of October are published and can be read by clicking on the following link:

Falstaff Wein Guide Italien 2023

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Cantina Santadi’s awards update

Stefania del Giudice — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 08:31:52 +0000

Cantina Santadi’s awards update: check the most recent James Suckling rating for Cantina Santadi’s wines.

Carignano del Sulcis Superiore Terre Brune 2017: 95 Points
Carignano del Sulcis Superiore Terre Brune 2018: 94 Points
Carignano del Sulcis Riserva Rocca Rubia 2019: 93 Points
Carignano del Sulcis Grotta Rossa 2020: 92 Points
Cannonau di Sardegna Noras 2019: 93 Points
Cannonanu di Sardegna Noras 2018: 93 Points
Monica di Sardegna Antigua 2021: 90 Points
Monica di Sardegna Antigua 2020: 90 Points
Nuragus di Cagliari Pedraia 2021: 90 Points
Vermentino di Sardegna Cala Silente 2021: 91 Points
Vermentino di Sardegna Villa Solais 2021: 91 Points
Valli di Porto Pino Shardana 2017: 91 Points
Valli di Porto Pino Villa di Chiesa 2020: 89 Points

CANTINA SANTADI

The Cantina di Santadi Winery is located in the Sulcis area, in South-western Sardinia, just a few miles as the crow flies from the dazzling beaches and white sand dunes of Porto Pino. It was established in 1960, and after some start-up difficulties, a new management gave it a decisive boost, driven by strong determination which fanned enthusiasm and passion. Thus the Winery embarked on an ambitious programme, adopting new strategies and clear targets, streamlining its operations and issuing coherent guidelines to its member grape growers.

THEIR PRODUCTS

Sulcis’ Excellences

Good wine is born in the vineyard – our job is to enhance grape quality through skilful cultivation, and then, in the winery, to make the best use of this gift of nature.
The Santadi Winery processes mainly black grapes, about 75% of total production. The most important varieties are Carignano, Monica, Sangiovese, Syrah, Merlot and Bovaleddu as regards the reds, and Vermentino, Nuragus, Chardonnay and Nasco for the whites.
Vineyard cultivation methods are carefully designed to maintain low production per plant and so maximise grape quality.

Take a look at their website and discover their high quality wines →

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IWSC Medals Santadi

Petra Pelle — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:19:56 +0000

The International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) awarded wines from Cantina di Santadi: Gold for Festa Noria and Silver for Rocca Rubia Riserva.

IWSC medal for Cantina di Santadi’s FESTA NORIA:

A gold medal and 97 (!) points for Santadi’s Festa Noria (fortified wine) at the International Wine and Spirit Competition 2022

The vinification of Festa Noria:

The grapes are picked by hand. After a long period of drying in the sun they are fermented with classic red vinification. It starts from a temperature of ca. 20°C, to reach a maximum of 28°C. When 2/3 of residual sugar is consumed, the wine is cooled to stop the fermentation. Then vinous alcohol is added, thus obtaining a liquor wine with an important residual sugar and a final alcohol of about 16%. Then the wine is aging for several years in small oak barrels.

IWSC Medal for Cantina di Santadi’s ROCCA RUBIA RISERVA 2019:

A silver medal and 90 points for Santadi’s Rocca Rubia Riserva 2019 at the International Wine and Spirit Competition 2022

The vinification of Rocca Rubia:

After stemming and crushing, the grapes are fermented and macerated for 12-14 days in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperature of 25-28 °C. During this period, the must is frequently pumped up, thus fully absorbing the noble tannins typical of bush-grown carignano. After malolactic fermentation, the wine is transferred to small, fine grained 1st and 2nd-passage French oak casks for 10-12 months, to further develop its biochemical and chemical-physical properties, aroma and taste. Further aging in the bottle for several months enables an early bouquet development.

Grapes from the vineyards of Cantina di Santadi:

Great reds: Terre Brune, Rocca Rubia, Noras, Araja, Grotta Rossa and Antigua.

These great reds are accompanied by stylish whites.

Stylish whites: Villa di Chiesa, Cala Silente, Pedraia, Villa Solais, Latinia.

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Santadi: Medals at Concours Mondial de Bruxelles

Petra Pelle — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:45:46 +0000

Santadi wins 5 medals at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles

More than 10.000 wines from 46 countries are judged at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2021. The tasting was held the 17th of June – 27th of June.

40 countries received medals, Italy reached a 3rd place with 389 medals in total !

– 7x Gran Oro

– 103 x Gold

– 279 x Silver

Santadi, wine producer in Sardegna, is one of the receivers of a Gold medal.

And also 4 Silver Medals there were for Santadi’s

Tre Torri Rosato 2020
Terre Brune 2017
Cala Silente 2020
Pedraia Bianco 2020

SANTADI: The Cantina di Santadi Winery is located in the Sulcis area, which is in the southwest of Sardinia. Just a few miles from the beautiful beaches and the white sand dunes of Porto Pino. The grapes produce wines based on the carignano cultivar, with rich, expansive aroma and taste. Also with noble tannins and with a perfect balance between acid-organic elements, alcohol and polyphenols. The wise use of French barriques gives a perfect, harmonious and finishing touch to the development of these superb wines.

Terre Brune is a wine that perfectly combines with pork-based recipes.

As well at the International Wine and Spirits Competition (IWSC) Santadi received silver medals. More information can be found here: SANTADI

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