Whatever membrane exists between this life and the universal mystery is palpably thin in Sardinia's Gallura: ancient nuraghi, megalithic monuments left by the island's enigmatic Nuragic civilization, are vibrant in their stillness; collar bells ring out as shepherd dogs herd sheep in the indigo twilight; ageless, fantastic forms of wind-sculpted granite cast their commanding gaze over all; cork forests lost in timeless quietude; all utterances in some divine beyond-language vocabulary by a source that feels, in the moment, not so very far away.
And somehow, in the midst of all this, Vigne Surrau, the innovative, architect-designed winery conceived as place where art and nature merge, assumes its place upon the Galluran landscape in the most unobtrusive of ways.