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Antichi Poderi di Jerzu
Antichi Poderi di Jerzu is the cooperative winery of Jerzu, a village in the Ogliastra corner of eastern Sardinia. It was founded in 1950 by 18 growers, pushed on by Josto Miglior, the village doctor. Today 408 families farm its vineyards, which climb from 30 to 786 metres between the Gennargentu mountains and the coast. The cellar is the main producer of Cannonau di Sardegna DOC Jerzu. Tastings at the old cellar on Via Umberto I can be booked, including one paired with the Maria Lai art space.
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About Antichi Poderi di Jerzu
The cantina was born in 1950, when 18 growers agreed to pool their fruit. The push came from Josto Miglior, the village doctor, who wanted Jerzu households to build one shared winery on Via Umberto I. Three quarters of a century later it is still a cooperative, now uniting 408 families around Jerzu. Nearly all the shareholders live in the village. In this corner of Ogliastra, almost every household is connected to the harvest in some way.
The vineyards climb from 30 metres near the coast to 786 metres in the foothills of the Gennargentu mountains. That is more than 700 metres of height difference inside one cooperative, so vineyard work moves in waves: one stage is still finishing low down as the same work begins higher up. Working with university partners, the cooperative has mapped nine zones by vine age, yield and altitude. Each of the cellar's crus comes from one band of that map.
Cannonau dominates. The Linea del Fondatore wines (Josto Miglior, Chuerra and Marghia) come from vineyards at 600, 500 and 400 metres. They form the strictest tier: Cannonau di Sardegna DOC Riserva Jerzu. The Linea Selezione (Bantu, Camalda Monica di Sardegna, Isara rosé and Telavè Vermentino di Sardegna) is the easier everyday range, each wine from a single grape. Above them sit the Baccu single-vineyard reserves, Baccu S'Alinu and Baccu Is Baus, and the Cinquesse cru. Filare Vermentino di Sardegna DOC and the Atèru sparkling round out the whites and bubbles. Biagio Boi leads the winemaking, with Franco Bernabei, a consultant of long standing, beside him.
Visits run all year. Four set tastings, from 25 to 40 euro per person and 45 to 90 minutes long, are booked through the Winearound page. The shortest is a walk through the barrel hall with the fresher wines. The longest tours the historic cellar itself. One tasting pairs the wines with the Maria Lai exhibition inside the cellar's own art space, Spazio Cinquesse.
Wine is not the only thing on the calendar. Spazio Cinquesse hosts Maria Lai's exhibition Sul filo dell'infinito, and the village stages the Festival dei Tacchi each summer. The Samuele Baccanti retail line takes its name from the innkeeper of Telévras in Gesuino Némus's novel L'eresia del Cannonau. That line is the everyday face of the cooperative on UK and European shop shelves. The Fondatore and Baccu wines stay the calling cards in restaurants and specialist shops.
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Antichi Poderi di Jerzu
Jerzu, Nuoro
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3 bookable experiences at Antichi Poderi di Jerzu
2 tastings and 1 tour, checked by our editors. From €25.
Tasting
Brezze d'Annata
45 minutes
From €25 per person
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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Filari dell'Infinito
60 minutes
From €35 per person
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.
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Cellar Tour
Gli Antichi Poderi
90 minutes
From €40 per person
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.
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Via Umberto I, 1, 08044 Jerzu, Nuoro (Sardegna)
What Antichi Poderi di Jerzu makes
Antichi Poderi di Jerzu's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Cannonau and Vermentino.
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Antichi Poderi di Jerzu is in Jerzu, a village in the Ogliastra district of Sardinia. The cellar is at Via Umberto I, 1, 08044 Jerzu, in the province of Nuoro. Its vineyards run from 30 metres above sea level near the coast to 786 metres in the foothills of the Gennargentu mountains.
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