Est. 1980 
8 wines 
Tastings
Tours
Accommodation
Booking required 
Classic Wine Tasting
Five wines guided by an in-house sommelier on a terrace overlooking the vineyards. Roughly two hours, available for groups of one to eight, by appointment only.
Book this experienceCapichera
Sardinia, ItalyCapichera sits among the granite outcrops of Gallura, just outside Arzachena in north-east Sardinia, on land the founding Ragnedda family farmed long before the estate was bottled commercially. From its first vintage in 1981 the winery has been the reference point for serious Sardinian Vermentino, releasing single-vineyard whites and barrique-fermented bottlings when neither was the local norm.
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Sardinia
- Est. 1980
- 8 wines
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Booking required
Experiences at Capichera
Bookable experiences, curated by our editors. External booking where marked.
Premium Tasting and Vineyard Tour
A three-hour walk-through of the estate followed by eight wines, including three older vintages from the cellar, paired with Sardinian food. Available for one to eight guests, by appointment only.
Book this experienceClassic Wine Tasting
Five wines guided by an in-house sommelier on a terrace overlooking the vineyards. Roughly two hours, available for groups of one to eight, by appointment only.
Book this experienceAbout Capichera
Capichera lies a few kilometres inland from the Costa Smeralda, on Strada Arzachena, in a corner of Gallura where decomposed granite, sea wind and Mediterranean macchia define what wine can be. The Ragnedda family had cultivated these vineyards since the late 1800s, but the current estate took shape in the 1970s, with Fabrizio and Mario Ragnedda founding the company in 1980 and releasing the first commercial vintage in 1981.
From the start, Capichera bet on a grape the rest of Italy still treated as a coastal afterthought. The estate vinified Vermentino in purity, was the first in the world to age it in barrique, and pushed early into single-vineyard releases. That work helped reposition Vermentino as a serious white capable of texture and ageing, and it pulled the entire Vermentino di Gallura DOCG zone up with it.
The wines are split across three appellations that map cleanly to the estate's intent. Lintori, a fresher Vermentino di Sardegna DOC, is the entry into the house style. Vign'Angena, a single-vineyard Vermentino di Gallura DOCG, is the more layered, mineral and structured expression that Capichera built its reputation on. Beyond those, the Isola dei Nuraghi IGT range covers the late-harvest VT, a barrique-aged Vermentino picked late off the vine, and Liantru, a Carignano-led red blend grown on the same granite.
In 2022, the Ragnedda family sold 100 percent of Capichera to Milanese entrepreneur Carlo Bonomi, who took on the estate of around 100 hectares, with roughly 42 hectares under vine, 35 of those planted to Vermentino. The brief from the new ownership has been continuity rather than reinvention: protect the Gallura identity that put Capichera on the map, and keep the focus on a small range of high-end wines tied to specific plots.
For visitors, Capichera receives guests on its terraces overlooking the vineyards, with two tasting formats: a Classic two-hour tasting of five wines, and a longer Premium tour of the estate that walks through eight wines including older vintages, paired with Sardinian food. Both sit by appointment only, booked through the winery's own scheduling system.
Visiting Capichera
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Tastings
Available
Tours
Available
Accommodation
Not available
Booking
Required
Plan your visit
Strada Arzachena, KM. 5,00, 07021 Arzachena, Sassari (Sardegna)
Plate I · SARDINIA
Capichera on the Sardinia wine atlas
What Capichera makes
Capichera's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Vermentino.
Key grapes
Common questions
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Capichera is on Strada Arzachena km 5, in the comune of Arzachena (Sassari province) in north-east Sardinia, roughly 15 minutes inland from Porto Cervo and the Costa Smeralda. The cellar sits in the Gallura wine zone, surrounded by granite outcrops and Mediterranean scrub.
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