The farm bearing the name Antonella Ledà d’Ittiri extends for 18 hectares near the town of Alghero, an area having a long history for its vineyards and olive groves in Sardinia. Today the farm has 9 hectares of olive groves and 4 hectares of vineyards, to which another 2 hectares of vineyards in the phase of implanting will be added shortly. Two old but recently renovated farm houses are hidden away in the olive groves and vineyards. One of this is used as the country home of the family of the farm owners and the other is rented out during the period from Easter to the end of the grape-harvest.
The grape-harvest takes place in September and is rigorously carried out by hand followed by an accurate selection of the best bunches so as to guarantee a superb quality product and a limited production per hectare as dictated by the establishment’s personal philosophy. The growing system is that called
In a general context where the tendency is that of homologating production so privileging the local vines, the noblewoman Antonella Ledà d’Ittiri has decided to follow her intuition and her own tastes implanting international vines.
Here is the birth place of Margallò, a wine of rare fragrance , of elegant and intense flavour and of precious color. We have named it Margallò from the Catalan name of the “dwarf palm”, the Chamaerops Humilis in botanical taxonomy, a plant growing everywhere in the territory of Alghero, once a Catalan enclave.
The clones used, of French origin regarding the Merlot and Cabernet grapes and of Tuscan origin regarding the Sangiovese, have shown an excellent compatibility with the climate and the soils of Alghero.