VITIVINICOLA AMAR Società Agricola
(Winery in Mandrolisai)
About Winery and Wines
Vitivinicola Amar is an entirely certified organic company. The owners have chosen simple, authentic, and respectful agriculture, to protect biodiversity in the area and maintain the balance that characterizes an environment that is still uncontaminated, in a perfect combination of men, animals, and plants.
We are in Mandrolisai, the geographical and cultural center of Sardinia, an intact territory, full of archaeological sites but also of humanity, one of the few territories in Italy to have obtained the important and exclusive recognition of "Traditional Rural Landscape of Historical Interest". It represents the place of historical perseverance of mythical and immemorial heroic viticulture, made up of sacrifices and everyday life, habits, and customs. Wines are born from an act of love for life and nature, from love for the wisdom of an ancient land where wine, like bread, has always been first of all nourishment for the body and the spirit.
The vineyards of Serratzargiu in Sorgono and of Genn'e Ilixi in Meana Sardo are very ancient, handed down, conducted, and replanted several times over the centuries, always present with their stories, narratives, and vicissitudes. Serratzargiu is a place of vineyards, pastures, and oak groves adjacent to the rural Sanctuary of San Mauro, the medieval home of an important monastery of Benedictine monks, who, with wise intuition and handed down experience, identified the places where the vineyards gave quality grapes and they were less prone to disease.
Genn'e Ilixi is a splendid hilly town next to the imposing archaeological site of Nuraghe Nolza, bordered by the suggestive nineteenth-century railway line of the Trenino Verde. Walking through the vineyards of the company you come across what appears as a great mess of herbs and flowers growing in all directions, insects and fru
Sardinia boasts a centuries-old tradition for its heterogeneity and the truly rich variety of native vines. The island and wine have such a deep bond that the vineyard area is now very large and the correlation between this drink and the longevity of the Sardinian people has been studied for years.
The "Mandrolisai" wine takes the historical name of the homonymous geographical area of production, located in the central-western part of Sardinia, with land located in a favorable position for the development of the vine. The "Mandrolisai" DOC wines are obtained from grapes coming from the vines present in the vineyards according to the following percentage: Sardinian Bovale not less than 35%; Cannonau from 20% to 35%; Monica from 20% to 35%.
According to accredited authors, the Sardinian Bovale, locally called "Muristellu", which forms the ampelographic base of Mandrolisai is an indigenous grape variety. Laboratory tests on some charred pips found in a Sardinian Nuraghe have shown that they belong to the Muristellu vine. and that this derives from the wild vine, that is, it is the link with the cultivated vine. Domestication was carried out more than three thousand years ago by the Nuragics, an ancient Sardinian people of navigators and warriors of the Mediterranean.