Cantina Di Santadi

Sardinia has two top companies, one of them is Cantina di Santadi. Yet Cantina di Santadi is a cooperative winery. 

With class and tachis to success - Cantina Di Santadi

The management is very hands-on and far-sighted. Very early on, they focused on class. But the decisive step on the way to the top was that Santadi managed to engage a 'wine legend' as a consultant: Giacomo Tachis.

Fresh wind in the house

Giacomo Tachis is without doubt the oenologist who has given the most important impetus to Italian viticulture over the past 50 years. Tachis was Antinori's chief oenologist for many years and as such the 'inventor' of cult wines such as Tignanello, Sassicaia and Solaia. He has made the barrique in Italy hopeful, he has worked for a limitation of the harvest quantities per plant, he has created wines with high concentration and density and he has led Santadi to success.

Into the charts with Carignano

Tachis has always had an interest in the grape varieties and wines of Sardinia, especially Carignano. He was convinced that Carignano was the stuff of which great wines could be made. And he proved it with the red wines of Santadi. With

• Rocca Rubia and
• Terre Brune

he created great wines that quickly entered the international 'hit lists'.