From the late 1950s to the late 1980s, the Silvio Carta winery maintained a tight focus on the production of Vernaccia, a wine of significance and tradition in Sardinia. When Vernaccia began to decline in popularity, Elio Carta and his father Silvio saw that new opportunities were to be found in the art of distillation. Elio discovered that most of the juniper for gin in the world was coming from Tuscany and Umbria, so he imagined that the Sardinian juniper would certainly possess the qualities necessary for distilling. Thus, Elio Carta became the very first gin distiller on the island of Sardinia.
