Est. 1938 
18 wines 
Tastings
Tours
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Cellar tour and tasting at the Serdiana headquarters
Argiolas runs guided visits in the cellar and across the home vineyards at Serdiana, paired with a tasting of estate wines. Visits are arranged in advance through the winery directly.
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Sardinia, ItalyArgiolas farms estates across southern Sardinia from its base in Serdiana, twenty kilometres inland from Cagliari. Founded in 1938 by Antonio Argiolas and now led by his grandchildren, the winery built its international profile on Cannonau, Carignano, Bovale Sardo and Vermentino, bottled under Isola dei Nuraghi IGT and Vermentino di Sardegna DOC. Its flagship Turriga, a Cannonau-led blend designed in the late 1980s with consulting oenologist Giacomo Tachis, sits at the head of a portfolio that runs from accessible Costamolino through to the centennial Antonio 100.
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Sardinia
- Est. 1938
- 18 wines
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Booking required
Experiences at Argiolas
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Cellar tour and tasting at the Serdiana headquarters
Argiolas runs guided visits in the cellar and across the home vineyards at Serdiana, paired with a tasting of estate wines. Visits are arranged in advance through the winery directly.
EnquireAbout Argiolas
Antonio Argiolas began bottling under his own name in 1938, decades before Sardinia had a serious modern wine industry to speak of. His sons Franco and Giuseppe scaled the estate through the second half of the twentieth century, and a third generation, Valentina, Francesca and Antonio, now runs the daily operation. The patriarch lived past one hundred, a span that brackets almost the entire arc of bottled Sardinian wine.
The winery does not work a single block but a network of estates spread across the southern half of the island. Bingias Beccias around Selegas yields white grapes from forty hectares of older vines. The Trexenta hills between Selegas and Guamaggiore, sitting at three hundred metres, give the reds their cooler-climate cut. Su Pranu and Iselis at Sibiola, beside a brackish lagoon, host the experimental biodiversity vineyard that catalogues eleven recovered native varieties. The Is Solinas vineyards in Sulcis grow Carignano in sand, salt air and juniper.
Turriga marked the inflection point. Designed in the 1980s with Giacomo Tachis, the consultant who shaped Sassicaia and Solaia for Tenuta San Guido and Antinori, the wine takes Cannonau and a small share of Bovale Sardo, Carignano and Malvasia Nera, and ages the blend in French oak barriques for eighteen to twenty-four months before twelve to fourteen months in bottle. The first vintage was 1988, released in 1991. Mariano Murru, Tachis's apprentice on the project, is now technical director.
Sustainability discipline now sits across the whole operation: per-vine geolocation and weather stations on each estate for precision viticulture, integrated farming with cover crops and biological pest control, and the Simonit and Sirch non-invasive pruning programme adopted across all estates over the last decade. The Sibiola biodiversity field, a five-thousand-plant catalogue of eleven recovered native varieties, sits at the centre of that effort.
The portfolio runs from approachable Costamolino and S'elegas Vermentino through Costera Cannonau and Perdera Monica to the upper bracket of Turriga, Korem and the centennial Antonio 100. Two Argiolas wines are currently featured on italianwines.co.uk: the everyday Costamolino and the single-vineyard Meri, both Vermentino di Sardegna DOC and both showing the sun-and-wind print of the Trexenta whites.
Visiting Argiolas
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Tastings
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Tours
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Accommodation
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Booking
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Plan your visit
Plate I · SARDINIA
Argiolas on the Sardinia wine atlas
What Argiolas makes
Argiolas's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Cannonau and Vermentino.
Key grapes
Common questions
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Argiolas is based in Serdiana in the Parteolla, twenty kilometres inland from Cagliari in southern Sardinia. The winery works a network of estates across Trexenta, Sulcis, Sibiola and Selegas, with the cellar and headquarters at Serdiana.
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