Partial to a drop of wine? Let someone else do the driving!! Here is an itinerary(151 km or 2 hours 30mins) of some of the most important places for wine production in Sardinia

1st stop: Jerzu
Jerzu is a big village, built on different levels with houses on several floors overlooking the main street, and surrounded by grapevines grown on the steep sides of the hills. In this area, about 100,000 quintals of grapes are produced every year and worked in the winery famous for its Cannonau Rosso DOC. The village is, in fact, known around Sardinia as “la città del vino” (the city of wine). Besides the winery, the vitivinic business Antichi Poderi Jerzu is present, with the production of its red and rosy Cannonau di Jerzu and its Cannonau di Sardegna. 

2nd stop: Tortolì
A small town at a stone’s throw from enchanting beaches, also known for its food and wine tradition relating to its agro-pastoral origins. Still today, some dishes, such as the traditional culurgiones, are prepared according to recipes handed down from generation to generation, almost as in a rite. In the village, moreover, the winery Cantina Sociale Ogliastra, famous most of all for the cultivation of Cannonau and for the wide range of products offered, from aperitifs to table and dessert wines, also makes an excellent wine. 

3rd stop: Oliena
Oliena is a village devoted to agriculture known for its landscape beauty and an excellent wine which has inebriated even the most illustrious people. The name of the village is, in fact, linked to the full-bodied Nepente, a premium quality of Cannonau produced by Oliena and Gostolai’s wineries. This fine wine is even mentioned by G. D’Annunzio in a 1909 letter: still today, his famous quotation appears on the bottle labels: “Non conoscete il nepente d’Oliena neppure per fama? Ahi lasso! Io sono certo che, se ne beveste un sorso, non vorreste mai più partirvi dall’ombra delle candide rupi, e scegliereste per vostro eremo una di quelle cellete scarpellate nel macigno che i Sardi chiamano Domos de Janas, per quivi spugnosamente vivere in estasi fra caratello e quarteruolo. Io non lo conosco se non all’odore; e l’odore, indicibile, bastò a inebriarmi.” (“You don’t even know the Nepente of Oliena not even by name? Ouch weary! If you tried it, you would never be willing to leave the shadow of the white cliffs, and would choose one of those small cells as your hermitage in what Sardinians call Domos de Janas, to live there raptured. I only know its bouquet; and this bouquet, inexpressible, was enough to inebriate me.”, a.t.). 

4th stop: Mamoiada
In 1770 the island’s Savoy viceroys noticed the village of Mamoiada for the abundance of its grapevines. In the village, especially an excellent Nepent is produced, characterised by a special bouquet and a high alcoholic gradation. Mamoiada is a centre known for its traditional carnival masks of “Mamuthones” and “Issokadores” and the marvellous environment characterised by oaken and chestnut woods which surround the inhabited centre.