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A 45-minute fresh-wines tasting in the barricaia: Bantu Cannonau di Sardegna, Isara rosé, Camalda Monica di Sardegna and Telavè Vermentino di Sardegna.
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Sardinia, ItalyAntichi Poderi di Jerzu is the cooperative cantina of the Ogliastra village of Jerzu, where 408 grower families farm vineyards stretching from 30 to 786 metres between the Gennargentu massif and the Sardinian east coast. Founded in 1950 by 18 members on the initiative of village doctor Josto Miglior, the estate is the dominant producer of Cannonau di Sardegna DOC Jerzu and a benchmark for the surrounding Vermentino di Sardegna and Monica di Sardegna appellations. Visits centre on the historic cellar in Via Umberto I, with bookable tastings that pair Cannonau crus with the Maria Lai exhibition at Spazio Cinquesse.
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Filari dell'Infinito
A 60-minute pairing of Filare Vermentino di Sardegna and Cinquesse Cannonau di Sardegna with the Maria Lai exhibition Sul filo dell'infinito at the cellar's Spazio Cinquesse.
Book this experienceGli Antichi Poderi
A 90-minute industrial-archaeology walk through the historic cellar, barricaia and bottaia, finishing with a four-wine tasting of one Vermentino di Sardegna and three Cannonau di Sardegna DOC Jerzu.
Book this experienceBrezze d'Annata
A 45-minute fresh-wines tasting in the barricaia: Bantu Cannonau di Sardegna, Isara rosé, Camalda Monica di Sardegna and Telavè Vermentino di Sardegna.
Book this experienceAbout Antichi Poderi di Jerzu
The cantina was founded in 1950 by 18 grower members on the initiative of Josto Miglior, the village doctor, who pushed Jerzu households to pool their fruit and build a single winemaking facility on Via Umberto I. Three quarters of a century later it remains a cooperative, now uniting 408 families across the Jerzu commune. The shareholders are nearly all village residents, which gives the estate a rare alignment between social structure and viticulture: almost every household in this corner of Ogliastra is connected, directly or indirectly, to the harvest.
The vineyards rise from 30 metres above sea level near the coast to 786 metres in the foothills of the Gennargentu mountains. With more than 700 metres of vertical relief inside one cooperative, harvest runs in waves: thinning is still under way at lower altitudes when fruit set begins higher up. Working with academic partners, Antichi Poderi di Jerzu has mapped nine sub-zones of homogeneous age, yield and altitude, and each cru in the cellar corresponds to a specific band of that zonazione.
Cannonau dominates the range. The Linea del Fondatore (Josto Miglior, Chuerra and Marghia) draws on vineyards at 600, 500 and 400 metres respectively, and is the cooperative's most rigorous Cannonau di Sardegna DOC Riserva Jerzu. The Linea Selezione (Bantu, Camalda Monica di Sardegna, Isara rosé and Telavè Vermentino di Sardegna) offers more accessible single-variety wines from the same district. Above them sit the Baccu single-vineyard reserves (Baccu S'Alinu, Baccu Is Baus) and the Cinquesse cru, while Filare Vermentino di Sardegna DOC and the Atèru Metodo Classico sparkling extend the white and bubbles offer. Head winemaker Biagio Boi works with consultant Franco Bernabei, whose long-running involvement gives the cellar mainland-Italian precision applied to indigenous Sardinian fruit.
Visits run year-round and are bookable through the cantina's Winearound page. Brezze d'Annata is a 45-minute fresh-wines walk-through in the barricaia at EUR 25 per person, working through Bantu Cannonau, Isara rosé, Camalda Monica and Telavè Vermentino. I Grandi Rossi del Territorio is a 90-minute Cannonau-cru showcase at EUR 30. Filari dell'Infinito (60 minutes, EUR 35) pairs Filare Vermentino and Cinquesse Cannonau with the Maria Lai exhibition Sul filo dell'infinito inside the cellar's Spazio Cinquesse. Gli Antichi Poderi (90 minutes, EUR 40) is a longer industrial-archaeology walk through the historic cellar, barricaia and bottaia with a four-wine tasting.
The cantina is unusual among Sardinian cooperatives for its programmed cultural work. Spazio Cinquesse hosts Maria Lai's Sul filo dell'infinito, the village runs the Festival dei Tacchi each summer, and the Samuele Baccanti retail line takes its name from the innkeeper of Telévras in Gesuino Némus's novel L'eresia del Cannonau. Samuele Baccanti is the everyday face of the cooperative on UK and European wine-shop shelves, while the Linea del Fondatore and Baccu wines remain the producer's calling cards in restaurant and specialist trade.
Visiting Antichi Poderi di Jerzu
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Via Umberto I, 1, 08044 Jerzu, Nuoro (Sardegna)
Plate I · SARDINIA
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Common questions
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Antichi Poderi di Jerzu is in the village of Jerzu, in the Ogliastra district of Sardinia. The cellar address is Via Umberto I, 1, 08044 Jerzu (province of Nuoro). Vineyards extend from 30 metres above sea level near the coast to 786 metres in the foothills of the Gennargentu massif.
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