It is called Cannonau Colcò and it is the first school wine bottled in Gallura. The Agriculture students of the viticultural-oenological technical course of the Amsicora high school in Olbia packaged about two hundred bottles, complete with a personalized label created in the school's computer rooms, of the red wine produced in the small didactic vineyard of Cannonau grapes, planted at the school .
Cannonau Colcò (from the toponym of the area that hosts the vineyard), with 14.5 volumes of alcohol content, is the result of the work of the students of the last years of the course, which began five years ago with the planting of the first cuttings, and coincided with the establishment of the new curriculum.
With the first bottles of Cannonau Colcò, Amsicora will raise its glasses, at the end of the school year, to toast the first eight graduates of the course, also born to meet the needs of the increasingly numerous wine cellars present in Gallura.
A bet that won, in defiance of the difficulties caused by the pandemic that has slowed down the cultivation of the vineyard, which challenges new ambitions: «We intend to ask for funding to set up a small cellar in an existing school building to be adapted and to set up a vineyard of about two thousand square meters», says Sandro Piras, the representative of the Amsicora Institute's Agricultural branch. Currently, together with the Cannonau grape vines, the school hosts a Vermentino vineyard, whose production will be ready for next year.