Cantina di Mogoro Cavaliere Sardo Bovale Sardegna Terralba Riserva 2021

Cantina di Mogoro Cavaliere Sardo is a delicious wine made from a lesser known grape from Sardinia known as Bovale. It's one of the oldest vines to grow on the island and gives wines of great intensity and flavour. When you pour it out you'll notice the dark, intense purple colour and fruity aromas. There is plenty of fruitiness in this wine, like notes of ripe cherry and blackberry. However, despite its alcohol level, this is a wine of complexity and there are subtly herbaceous hints of cocoa and tobacco which take this wine to another level. Full bodied, and with structured tannins that are both velvety and soft, but add weight and earthiness. A fantastic wintery wine for long nights in front of the fire, accompanied by wild boar stew (hotpot would also do nicely!)

The Bovale is one of the oldest vines grown in Sardinia. Its presence is found everywhere on the island, being grown alone or together with other types of grapes. Recent studies have shown that the Bovale derives directly from the wild vines, still found in some woody areas, but not much cultivated today. This discovery makes experts believe that Sardinia could have been, thousands of years ago, a secondary centre of “taming” and selecting vine biodiversity. The Bovale is a vine of average vigour with a thick grape of medium size. The grape has a rather thick and blue and black skin. The vine shows resistance to the main phytopathies. Fruit maturation takes place between the third decade of September and the first decade of October.