Grape Variety: Giro

Colour: Red

Girò is also one of grape-varieties brought by Spanish during their domination, but its most significant period was during the Piedmontese domination, to be precise in 1736 when the Marquis of Rivarolo boosted the increase and improvement of vine growing through a new policy.

Girò has been successfully planted until the arrival of phylloxera around 1850, when all vineyards were destroyed. Whilst replanting wine growers chose species of vine easier to grow and to produce, so people started getting interested on this wine only after being recognised as DOC in 1979. Today it is planted in the areas nearby Cagliari and in several towns of Oristano district and has become one of the more appreciated dessert wines.

The colour is light and brilliant ruby, its flavours delicate, grapey, its texture is soft and velvety.

The ageing required is a minimum of nine months, and it comes in different styles:
Natural Sweet, Red;
Liqueur-like Natural Sweet, Red;
Reserve: Liqueur-like Natural Sweet, Red, with two years of ageing;
Liqueur-like Dry, Red;
Reserve: Liqueur-like Dry, Red, with 2 years of aging;
Dry, Red.