Cantine di Orgosolo / Il Fromboliere (The Slinger)

The project was born in the renowned Orgosolo Wineries, in the heart of Sardinia, which for many years have selected the best Cannonau grapes from their own vineyards so that they could produce, using traditional methods, wines that would remain strongly to the local tradition, and export them to international destinations.

MATCHING PRODUCTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE:

Wine culture and cultivation come together to give life to the first wine dedicated to the famous work of Francesco Ciusa: the Slinger. It is the latest work of this sculptor, and it was realized in 1939 during a brief stay of the artist in Orgosolo. The artist saw a young shepherd throwing a stone with a leather sling, and immortalized him in an imperishable work, perhaps among his most beautiful.
Even Grazia Deledda, the Nobel Prize writer from Nuoro, included the figure of the slinging shepherd children in her stories. Eventually, also Gabriele d’Annunzio, during a visit to Orgosolo, celebrated in his verses the brave fighters from the town, who used the sling in the trenches of the First World War.

THE Company and the Product

In creating the rosé “Il Fromboliere”, the company has attracted three of the greatest exponents of the Italian and Sardinian cultural heritage to create a unique wine that has sewn on it a label that is a real hymn to the culture of its territory, a tribute to its art and to its deepest soul. When we talk about the “Cantine di Orgosolo”, we talk about an avant-garde that pays tribute to a territorial belonging, and that aims to leave a strong wine heritage to its country and to its children. The wineries were indeed formed by a small group of producers, each with its own history and tradition. Together, they constituted the winery company Cantine di Orgosolo in 2007, and, since then, they keep selecting the best Cannonau grapes from their vineyards. The result is an authentic red wine, an artisanal product of some complexity, which remains firmly bound to the local tradition. In the back of the label it was decided to insert the sestina that Gabriele d’Annunzio dedicated to the Orgosolo Frombolieri, in the conviction that wine signifies culture in all directions.

The label shows a passage from the psalm written by d’Annunzio in 1918. In it are recalled the blood contribution of the Sardinians in the First World War, identified in the mythical slingers of Orgosolo. The imprinted passage reads:

Chiama, e numera. I frombolieri orgolesi dalle fionde di canape attorta scagliarono il fuoco e caddero, col rombo sul capo, col dito nel cappio, più belli del figlio d’Isai. Si leveranno al tuo grido, come nell’albe del Supramonte, girando la corda.

 

(Call, and count: the orgolese slingers with their slings of hemp twisted, hurled fire and fell, with the rhombus on the head, with the finger in the noose, more beautiful than the son of Isai. They will rise to your cry, as in the dawn of the Supramonte, turning the rope.)