Grape Variety: Malvasia di Bosa

Colour: White

Malvasia was brought in Sardinia thanks to the Benedictine monks from Monembasia, a Greek town in Morea’s district during the Byzantine age. The version, however, cultivated in Sardinia is typically local and is very different from the many other Italian Malvasias. In Sardinian it is also called Marmaxia, Manusia, Alvagreca.

While it is alsocultivated around Cagliari it is in Bosa, in the western part of the island (in the province of Nuoro) that this variety finds the best conditions to grow and achieves particular quality.
In fact, in Bosa areas this wine gets particular delicacy and fragrances thanks to the soil which are poor in nitrogen but rich in potassium and well exposed to the sun. The grapes which make the typical “Malvasia di Bosa” wine come from the variety “Malvasia di Sardegna” and grow in the districts of Suni, Tinnura, Flussio, Magomadas, Tresnuraghes, Modolo. The main centre is Bosa, in the north-west coast of the island: a small town where overlooks the ancient Castle of Serravalle, built in the XIII century by the Malaspina Marquis to defend the area from Saracens incursions.

The grapes are harvested before they mature; the colour of the must goes from straw-yellow to golden; its fragrance is intense and aromatic and its taste is dry, very savoury and warm.