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Sardinia's benchmark red: old-vine Cannonau with Carignano, Bovale and Malvasia Nera from the Turriga vineyard, shaped with Giacomo Tachis. Two years in French barriques; powerful, herb-laced, built to cellar. The 2021 swept Italy's guides.
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Blackcurrant and black cherry under bark, graphite and oak, and a very high 'souplesse' index in Argiolas's own words. Young Turriga still wants a decant.
The 2021 opens on blackcurrant and black cherry wrapped in the bark, graphite and milk chocolate James Suckling logged at release. Oak, tobacco and vanilla lead, layered over Mediterranean scrub and dark fruit.
Coffee
Black cherry
Blackberry
Blackcurrant
Plum
Tobacco
Leather
Liquorice
VanillaFull-bodied at 14.5%, dense and tightly wound in youth, the product of 16 to 18 days on the skins in steel, with delestage. The lime-rich, rocky Turriga vineyard, bush-trained since 1970, keeps the acidity precise. So plum and blackberry stay fresh under the firm tannic frame.
Long and persistent in the house's high-souplesse style, closing on liquorice and roasted coffee over a lightly toasted note.
This is the wine La Repubblica said 'cleared Sardinian red wine through customs': Argiolas's flagship, and drinkers like it, year after year. Decant the 2021 now or cellar it into the 2030s; it sits at the very top of the estate's range.
Two merchants list the 2021 at £98.50 to £101 for 75cl. With production around 40,000 to 50,000 bottles and a full guide sweep behind this vintage, allocations do not linger.
75cl · 1995: £125.00, 1 UK retailer
75cl · 1997: £110.00, 1 UK retailer
75cl · 1998: £110.00, 1 UK retailer
Turriga profiles as a cellar and occasion wine: 14.5%, firm tannin, £98.50 upwards. It scores low for beginners and weeknights, high for patience and the big table.
Sardinia's most decorated red: Tre Bicchieri, 5 Grappoli and Veronelli's Stella Polare for the 2021, and an icon pedigree running back to 1988. The price marks the occasion itself.
Isola dei Nuraghi IGT mandates no ageing, but the wine delivers it anyway: 24 months in French oak barrels and a further year in bottle. Vinous retrospectives show vintages back to 1988 still alive; drink the 2021 from 2026 to about 2041.
Built for the table but only the big end of it. Firm tannin and 14.5% body need game, char-grilled beef, roast lamb or aged pecorino, not delicate or spicy plates.
At £98.50 to £101 it buys Sardinia's icon with a 2021 guide sweep. That is well under fellow Tachis icons like Sassicaia at roughly twice the price, but far above £25 to £40 Cannonau riservas.
A tightly wound, tannic 14.5% blend that needs decanting and cellar patience at around £100; start with Argiolas's Costamolino or a Cannonau di Sardegna before this.
The inverse of its cellar score: a £98.50 to £101 single-vineyard flagship made in about 40,000 to 50,000 bottles. An event wine, not a Tuesday pour.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Isola dei Nuraghi denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
The 2021 swept the Italian guides: Tre Bicchieri from Gambero Rosso, 5 Grappoli and 97 points with a Stella Polare. Drinkable now, best from 2026.
A guide-sweep year for Turriga: Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri, Bibenda 5 Grappoli and 97 points with the Stella Polare in Veronelli's 2026 guide. James Suckling rates the 2021 drinkable now but best from 2026; expect it to reward cellaring into the 2030s.
A guide-sweep year for Turriga: Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri, Bibenda 5 Grappoli and 97 points with the Stella Polare in Veronelli's 2026 guide. James Suckling rates the 2021 drinkable now but best from 2026; expect it to reward cellaring into the 2030s.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Isola dei Nuraghi IGT spans the whole island and lets producers blend any authorised Sardinian grapes. Tachis used that freedom to join Cannonau, Carignano, Bovale Sardo and Malvasia Nera in one wine; no DOC of 1988 allowed it.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Isola dei Nuraghi is in the IGT tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Isola dei Nuraghi falls within Sardinia, covering Entire region of Sardinia.
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Yields run at just 1.6 to 2.0 tons per acre from the lime-rich, rocky Turriga site between Senorbi and Selegas. Hand-harvesting a tiny old-vine crop is the biggest lever in the £98.50 price.
Argiolas holds Turriga around two years in French oak barrels and a further 12 to 14 months in bottle before release. So every vintage carries three years of barrel and cellar cost before a single bottle is sold.
Tre Bicchieri from Gambero Rosso, 5 Grappoli and 97 points with Veronelli's Stella Polare for the 2021 keep global demand ahead of production. That runs at roughly 40,000 to 50,000 bottles a year.
About £19 of the £98.50 UK price is tax: £2.67 still-wine duty at 2026 HMRC rates plus £16.42 of VAT.
The Isola dei Nuraghi rules set no minimum ageing or oak, only an 18 tonnes per hectare yield ceiling for reds. Turriga's premium is house-made, not classification rent.
Argiolas's own list runs wild boar stew, furred game, spiced red meats and aged pecorino sardo; beef, lamb and pasta belong too. The cards below explain the structure behind each match.
Argiolas's own pairing list starts with cinghiale in umido, wild boar stew. Long braising melts collagen into the sauce, and that gelatine-rich fat softens Turriga's dense, tightly wound tannins. The wine's dark fruit meets the sweetness of slow-cooked meat.
Try with: Venison Stew · Agnello Ragu Lucano · Porchetta · More pairings →
The 2021 has long, refreshing, precise acidity. With firm tannin behind it, that acidity scrubs seared beef fat from the palate between bites. That is why a Cannonau-led red and bistecca alla fiorentina work so well together.
Try with: Fiorentina steak · Ribeye steak · Steak · More pairings →
Lamb is one of its three best-loved matches. A 14.5% full-bodied blend with ripe black fruit has the weight to match roast lamb's richness. The wine's Mediterranean herb streak echoes rosemary and thyme in the pan.
Try with: Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce · Leg of lamb · Rack of lamb · Lamb shank · More pairings →
The producer's list ends with pecorino sardo stagionato for a reason. The cheese's salt and savoury crystals balance Turriga's ripe 14.5% fruit, while its fat cushions the tannin. A wedge with pane carasau is the island's own way to finish the bottle.
Try with: Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Cheese board · mature farmhouse cheddar
Roasted wild mushrooms are a natural match, and the wine's earthy notes of leather, smoke and forest floor do the bridging. Those shared savoury aromatics carry it to porcini risotto and mushroom-laced braises.
Try with: Porcini mushroom risotto · Beef wellington · Beef stew
At 14.5% with dense tannin, Turriga amplifies capsaicin burn, so hot dishes turn harsh and alcoholic. The same tannin reads metallic against briny oysters and delicate white fish. Pour a Vermentino di Sardegna for those tables and keep Turriga for the meat.
Skip with: Szechuan beef · Lamb bhuna · oysters · grilled sea bass · Pairing guide →
Vinous has twice retasted Turriga back to its 1988 first vintage and found the early releases alive and well. Bank on 15 to 20 years for the 2021: it is best from 2026, and the estate releases each vintage only after three years of oak and bottle age.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
Isola dei Nuraghi IGT mandates no ageing, but the wine delivers it anyway: 24 months in French oak barrels and a further year in bottle. Vinous retrospectives show vintages back to 1988 still alive; drink the 2021 from 2026 to about 2041.
£94.00 for a 75cl bottle of the 2021, at XtraWine, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic. Drinkers score it 4.4 out of 5 from 17,959 ratings on Vivino.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumTurriga is the flagship red of Argiolas, the family winery founded in 1938 in Serdiana, southern Sardinia. Created with consulting oenologist Giacomo Tachis, its first vintage was 1988, and it is widely treated as Sardinia's benchmark red wine.
Turriga is 85% Cannonau with 5% each of Carignano, Bovale Sardo and Malvasia Nera, all Sardinian varieties. They grow on the lime-rich, rocky Turriga vineyard between Senorbi and Selegas in the Trexenta hills.
Isola dei Nuraghi IGT covers the whole of Sardinia and allows any blend of the island's authorised grapes. So Argiolas and Giacomo Tachis could join Cannonau with Carignano, Bovale Sardo and Malvasia Nera in proportions no DOC of the time permitted. The IGT label reflects blending freedom, not lower quality.
Drink the 2021 from 2026 to around 2041. It is best from 2026, and Vinous retrospectives back to the 1988 first vintage show Turriga drinking well past twenty years. Decant a young bottle for an hour or two.
UK merchants currently list the 2021 vintage at £98.50 to £101 per 75cl bottle. Production is only around 40,000 to 50,000 bottles a year, so top-rated vintages like 2021 can sell through quickly.
Argiolas itself recommends wild boar stew, furred game, spiced red meats and aged pecorino sardo. Its full body and firm tannins also suit char-grilled beef such as bistecca alla fiorentina, roast lamb and porcini mushroom dishes.
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