The Veronesi household, owners of Signorvino, a brand name part of the Oniverse group (previously Calzedonia), continues to buy the red wine sector. In reality, on Thursday 20 June Podere Guardia Grande was inaugurated, a winery on the north-western side of Sardinia.
A more action for the household that, after having actually committed itself to direct production in Lazio with Tenimenti Leone in the Castelli Romani local park and in the Valpolicella denomination with the La Giuva winery– a business established by the previous coach Alberto Malesani, a popular face in Italian football–, lands in Alghero with a cellar, red wine store, red wine tourist paths and 25 hectares of vineyards for the production of Vermentino, Cannonau and Cagnulari (a native red grape range stemming from these locations, consisted of in the Alghero DOC policies considering that 1995).
” We will work our vineyards appreciating this generous and special area – remarks Federico Veronesi, CEO of Podere Guardia Grande – without making use of chemical herbicides, as a repercussion of what ought to now be a “regular” method to farming. The top priority is to do it according to the concepts of sustainability, regard for the area, devotion to the vineyard: we wish to provide the possibility of finding the appeal and individuality of Sardinia, of the superb view of Capo Caccia”.
The modern-day cellar, created by the Sardinian studio CasciuRango designers, “mixes into” the normal panorama of these lands in the province of Sassari, with the option of utilizing the ruby red color – which shows the tone of the surrounding land – and a structure divided into 3 floorings (established not in height however towards the subsoil) which enables you to immerse yourself in the terroir where the vineyards grow and here delight in the breeze of the Mistral which brings the saltiness originating from the coast of the bay of Porto Conte. Antonio Marras, a stylist and designer from Alghero, finished the interiors in order to have overall synergy with the city of Alghero and its lands.
The barrel cellar, the grape aging space and the reception space (the just flooring that emerges from the underground) are the areas where it is possible to see the wine making viewpoint up close and taste the 3 labels presently produced by Podere Guardia Grande: Saldenya– Pure Vermentino di Sardegna, Nascimento– 100% Cannonau– and Alghè, a bottle committed to Cagnulari which, as can be seen from the name, admires Alghero, the city of coral.
