I first tasted the Cantina di Mogoro’s Puistèris wine back in 2000, and after learning more about it and the grape, wrote it all up in 2001 in an Italian wine magazine. The following year it was the turn of another wine magazine to receive my Semidano-wisdom, and it’s fair to say I haven’t stopped since, with numerous writings on the variety and wine in other magazines and my own reviews and websites. Already a long time ago, it was clear to me that Semidano isa special grape and the Puistèris just as special a wine. Clearly, the fact the wine is made in Sardinia (not exactly a hotbed of great white wine production at the time), and by a wine cooperative, probably didn’t do much for the wine’s notoriety. Furthermore, the fact this wine is the expression of a very rare Italian native grape variety that practically nobody has ever heard of and even fewer have tasted any wines of, was and is of no great help either.
