Cantine Spanu has its deep roots in time, starting from 1773, with its founder Giovanni Maria Spanu, who planted the first vineyard in the Iloghe jump, among the most fertile in the entire area, from which the name of the homonymous wine originates .

It was a very rare thing for the period, as the modest vineyard plots were usually located in the immediate urban outskirts, Sa Costa, Filieri, Murisinu, just to name a few. The origins of the toponym Iloghe, according to some studies carried out by a scholar, passionate about local history and traditions, seem to be attributable to the morphological characteristics of those lands, whose largely alluvial and volcanic origin were the distinctive characteristics of that leap, as well represent Sas Paules, (the swamps) now dried up, of Oddonue, Biriddo, Porcarzos, just to name a few, from whose Latin name "Idiles" (swamp) which, joining the suffix "oghe", from the mouth, gave origin to "Idiloghe", which with the passage of time, and the fall of the intervocalic D, gave rise to ILOGHE.

We cannot fail to mention the importance of that jump in the Nuragic era, judging by the evidence of the finds found, and by the numerous and important settlements, which have come down to our days in a good state of conservation, such as Serra Orrios, the nuraghe of Su Casteddu, Biristeddi, to name the most important and best preserved. The ungrafted vines were mainly native cannonau, but later a varietal clone of cannonau, coming from Spain, was then added, probably the result of the first commercial contacts that took place in the small port of Cala Gonone. With the advent of the infrastructural works in Sardinia, carried out by the Savoy and the construction of one of the most important road arteries of the time, such as the Carlo Felice, in the early twenties, which crossed the island from Cagliari to Porto Torres, Numerous workers came to the island, including another ancestor of mine, Pasquale Caroti, a true Tuscan, producer of ceramics and winegrower in Impruneta, together with his wife Anna Frizzi, from whom Luigi Caroti was born, who later became Carotti, to because of the writing errors of the employees of the local registry. The cultivation of vines and winemaking continued with the children beyond the brick and tile production activities, becoming an important reality in the provincial area, and at the first industrial bakery in the country, which was then closed immediately after the war.