Meloni vini

This is a story which started more than a century ago, in 1898, in a small house in Selargius, near Cagliari: Meloni house. The founder, Pietro Meloni, put all his love into handing down his passion for the earth, for farming and for good wines to his son Efisio, until that house was transformed into one of the more important wineries in Italy. But, to become immortal, every story needs a new person who continues to write it. From Efisio on, there were 3 generations that followed him and over the course of the years the family farm expanded according to precise criteria which allowed each individual type of grape to grow in its ideal environment. Efisio Meloni took a path, he chose a line to follow, while at that time no one could have imagined that that path would have forever marked the future of the winery.

The children Franco and Alfredo, Giampiero and Marcello, Giancarlo and Rossella found themselves in front of a really fertile land to cultivate: the family tradition. The link to their past had become a value of life, a responsibility to progress with the same passion handed down by Pietro. Efisio’s children dedicated themselves to their work, paying attention to, and with the typical care for perfection of craftsmen. That’s how they felt: real craftsmen of the land and of the vines. Only the deep devotion for every small detail could guarantee the high quality that others, in the past, wholeheartedly sought and found.

The experience of previous generations was a treasure to protect, look after and hand down. The future arrived without knocking and Meloni family knew how to receive it with courage and awareness, introducing innovative techniques to work the must and the wine, with the goal of bringing the winery to eliminate chemical additives, avoiding pasteurization and limiting the use of sulphur dioxide.This philosophy, safeguarded with passion and hard work, eventually led to the organic challenge and Meloni Vini was one of the first Italian companies to confront it.

A good vine variety produces good wines. But for us this is not enough. Selecting the most adapted areas, regarding soil, exposition and microclimate, is essential. For this reason we selected different lands for our different vines. Only in this way each vine variety can show its own qualities and gift its unique typicality.

SANTA ROSA ESTATE. Sunny countryside near Selargius, with sandy light sloping terrains, dry and rugged. Here our dessert wines have their origins.

CAMPU PIRASTU ESTATE. Sweet hills which surround Senorbi, with a mild climate and soils rich in minerals. Our whites wines come from here.

SIMBIRIZZI ESTATE. The vines cultivated in Simbiritzi area, near the artificial lake of the same name, give life to grapes allocated for the Vermentino Spumante Brut, an unique sparkling wine: salty, mineral and properly acid.

SU DANIELI ESTATE. Sun and wind live together on the plain of Decimomannu where the Fattorie Su Danieli are located. Pebbly and dry soil, ideal to preserve bunches from illnesses, which are highly probable in damper lands. There are produced the grapes for our big red wines, from IGT to Monica and to Cannonau di Sardegna.

In our vineyards tradition merges with modernity, science mixes with intuition in a continuous research for new methods to fight vines’ diseases, to improve the use and management of the scarce water resources and to fertilize naturally.

The organic cultivation, practised in the entirety of our vines has the production of respect of the earth, the farmer and the consumer as its mission. All essential conditions for a sustainable production. It’s also important to avoid deep or frequent works on the earth. Together with attention, if it’s true that on one side the production is reduced, on the other it allows us to obtain products which are even more in balance with nature and by virtue of the lower quantity enriches the persistent smells and aromas. During the harvest time, our laboratory and oenologists’ work is even more delicate: they must choose the best moment to collect the different grapes, considering the perfect balance between sugars and acidity, colour intensity and tannins, in function of each wine to be produced; decisions to be taken in just a few days.The harvest is also this: quickly making the right decisions and being able to put them into practice immediately, because today we are preparing the work for the years to come.