Arrivati al successo, in silenzio - A silent success

A feature entirely dedicated to Sardinian wine producers Argiolas, including a comprehensive tasting of their products: not just wines, but olive oil, grappa and liqueurs. Written by Slawka G. Scarso, first published in Bibenda - May-June 2005.

INCIPIT & EXCERPT
Forget the isolation of Sardinia. Argiolas is today, without any doubt, one of the most representative Italian wine estates on an international scale. Its competitive advantage is probably linked to two elements: on the one hand, the initial efforts aimed especially at the foreign market, and at consumers who were more inclined than national ones to purchase Sardinian wines; on the other, a strong trade marketing strategy directed at motivating trade and restaurant owners.
Founded almost 80 years ago by Antonio Argiolas, this wine estate can now count on the participation in the production and promotion activity of three generations of the same family, with a great contribution given, in this second sector, even by the younger family members, and in particular by Valentina Argiolas. A large range of wines defines the production. Wines made of the grapes from vineyards all situated on the hills of Southern Sardinia, where rain is usually scarce and the summers finely ventilated.

...All wines have a powerful structure. While the white wines’ only weak point seems to rest in the important alcoholic component which slightly dims the acidity, the red ones all flaunt a particularly amiable personality, on various levels of interpretation: starting with the simpler, if one may say so, Perdera, and culminating with the powerful and gigantic Turriga, in a decisive crescendo con brio and elegance which comprises Korem, a younger brother to Turriga, in which a palate of international style counterpoints a range of scents all of which are reminiscent of the Mediterranean scrub-land.
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