VdT Red

Tenuta Ulisse 10 Vendemmie Limited Edition

Tenuta Ulisse

Grape
Montepulciano
Denomination
Vino da Tavola VdT
Region
Abruzzo
ABV
14.5%
Body
Medium to full
Drink
Now–2030

Tenuta Ulisse blends ten harvests of Montepulciano into one bottle: prune, cherry jam and tobacco with vanilla and cocoa from a year in French oak, soft and full at 14.5%. Vivino's top 1%, 4.4 from 15,700 ratings. From £27.

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75cl · checked 13 Sep

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Where to buy 10 Vendemmie Limited Edition Tenuta Ulisse

£26.90 best price · 2 retailers in stock · checked 13 Sep 2026

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Tasting Notes

What Tenuta Ulisse's 10 Vendemmie tastes like

Ten harvests of Montepulciano blended into one bottle by Antonio Ulisse, with part of the wine given a year in French oak. Vivino's 3,179 reviews put vanilla, oak and chocolate first (1,372 mentions), then plum and blackberry.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial (drinker consensus)
Tasted on
1 September 2026
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Taste profile
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Prune and cherry jam first, then tobacco and sweet spice, the aromas Tenuta Ulisse's own sheet lists. Vivino drinkers put the oak ahead of the fruit: vanilla, oak and chocolate get 1,372 mentions across 3,179 reviews, against 756 for plum and blackberry. That is the year in French barriques showing.

CoffeeCoffee
BlackcurrantBlackcurrant
CherryCherry
PlumPlum
PrunePrune
TobaccoTobacco
SpicySpicy
VanillaVanilla
CocoaCocoa
Palate

Full-bodied and soft at 14.5%, with fine, ripe tannin. Ulisse picks part of the grapes slightly over-ripe and blends ten harvests, so the older wine rounds off the younger and nothing feels sharp. Cocoa and coffee from the oak sit under the fruit.

Finish

Long and warm, ending on cocoa, coffee and vanilla, as both the producer's sheet and drinkers describe it.

Overall

Tenuta Ulisse's commemorative blend, put together by oenologist Antonio Ulisse at the estate he and his brother Luigi founded in Crecchio in 2006. Drinkers rate it 4.4 from 15,700 Vivino ratings, in the site's top 1%, and James Suckling gave it 92. Decant for an hour and drink now to 2030 with lamb or steak.

Drink now Best by 2030
Live UK pricing

Where to buy 10 Vendemmie in the UK, and what to pay

xtrawine lists the 75cl at £27 and vino.com has it on offer at £30.80. The magnum in a wooden gift box is £74 on offer at vino.com. For a wine in Vivino's top 1%, £27 is a strong price.

Best price · 75 cl £26.90 at vino
Price spread £26.90 - £70.50 Across 2 UK retailers tracked
Retailers tracked 2UK 3 in stock
Vintages live NV Current release: NV
Per-litre (75 cl basis) £35.87 Per-litre price for the lowest current offer
Last checked 13 Sep 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

How 10 Vendemmie scores on the Italian Wine Fit Score

High for value and beginners: 4.4 from 15,700 Vivino ratings at £27, soft and ripe. Middling for the cellar, since the blend is built to drink now.

Best intro to this style 8.5/10

Ripe prune fruit, soft tannin and vanilla oak make it very easy to like, though 14.5% alcohol is a lot for a first red.

Best value 8.2/10

£27 to £30.80 for a wine rated 4.4 by 15,700 Vivino drinkers and in the site's top 1% is strong value; judged on the live listings.

Best with food 7.8/10

Full, soft and oaky at 14.5%, it is a lamb, steak and ragu wine; too big for fish or salad.

Best for an occasion 7.5/10

A limited edition in Vivino's top 1%, sold as a magnum in a wooden box, from a young estate with a story: a good gift under £30.

Best everyday bottle 4.5/10

At £27 and 14.5% this is a weekend or dinner-party red rather than a midweek one.

Best for cellar 4.0/10

The blend already carries older wine and is built to drink on release; a year in French oak for part of it helps, but there is little to gain past 2030.

Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Vino da Tavola in five fields

A compact view of what the Vino da Tavola denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
Variety list not yet recorded
This bottle: Montepulciano.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Style
VDT · Vino da Tavola
Classification
VdT (Vino da Tavola)
What that means →
Vintages

Ten harvests in one bottle: no vintage to choose

There is no year on the label because Tenuta Ulisse blends ten different harvests of Montepulciano into each release. The producer's sheet calls it a multi-vintage blend where each year adds a layer of character.

NV Non-vintage
Lowest price
£26.90
Retailers
3 in stock
ABV
14.5%
Window
Drink now through 2030

A blend of ten harvests, so there is no single vintage to judge. Vivino drinkers rate it 4.4 from 15,700 ratings, in the top 1% of wines on the site. Drink now to 2030; xtrawine suggests an hour in a decanter.

NV Non-vintage
Lowest price
£26.90
Retailers
3 in stock
ABV
14.5%
Window
Drink now through 2030

A blend of ten harvests, so there is no single vintage to judge. Vivino drinkers rate it 4.4 from 15,700 ratings, in the top 1% of wines on the site. Drink now to 2030; xtrawine suggests an hour in a decanter.

Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.

The disciplinare, the place, the label

What sits behind a £27 ten-harvest red from Tenuta Ulisse

Holding ten years of wine in the cellar is the real cost here, plus a year in French oak for part of the blend. Ulisse's own sheet labels it Vino Rosso, not DOC, though merchants file it under Montepulciano d'Abruzzo.

01

DOC, DOCG, IGT: what the badges mean

Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.

This bottle sits outside that pyramid, sold as Vino da Tavola. That is not a quality verdict: it means the producer kept the widest possible freedom at vinification and ageing, which is also how the first Super Tuscans were sold.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. No varieties prescribed at this tier
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
03

Region and area context

Vino da Tavola falls within Abruzzo.

The zone the estate stands in The producer

Made at Tenuta Ulisse, Crecchio. Directions

04

Reading the label

  • Tenuta UlisseProducer / estate
  • MontepulcianoGrape varieties
  • Vino da Tavola VDTGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 14.5% vol · 75 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
05

What sits behind the price of 10 Vendemmie Limited Edition Tenuta Ulisse

Tracked from
£26.90
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
4 up / 1 down
Main factor
Ten harvests held back and blended into one bottle
  1. 01

    Ten harvests held back and blended into one bottle

    Cost up

    Each bottle carries wine from ten different vintages, so Tenuta Ulisse has had to store wine for up to a decade before it earns anything. That stock is the single biggest cost behind the £27 price.

  2. 02

    Part of the wine spends 12 months in French barriques

    Cost up

    The producer's sheet says part of the blend ages a year in French oak barrels, which is where the vanilla, cocoa and coffee notes come from. Small French barrels are the most expensive vessel a winery can buy.

  3. 03

    Slightly over-ripened, hand-selected grapes

    Cost up

    Some of the grapes are left on the vine past normal ripeness before picking, which concentrates the fruit but cuts the volume of juice each vine gives.

  4. 04

    Labelled Vino Rosso by the producer, from a modern estate

    Cost down

    Ulisse's own technical sheet labels this blend Vino Rosso, the basic category, rather than Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC, so it carries none of the DOC's tasting-panel and yield paperwork. A modern estate founded in 2006 keeps overheads low too.

  5. 05

    UK VAT and alcohol duty

    Cost up

    On £27, VAT is £4.50 and duty on a 14.5% wine adds roughly £3.20, so about £7.70 of the price goes to HMRC before xtrawine takes a margin.

01

Ten harvests held back and blended into one bottle

Cost up

Each bottle carries wine from ten different vintages, so Tenuta Ulisse has had to store wine for up to a decade before it earns anything. That stock is the single biggest cost behind the £27 price.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Arrosticini on stoneware bowl with Lamb, Olive Oil, Rosemary

Arrosticini
Agnello Cacio e Ova, plated

Agnello Cacio e Ova
Food Pairing

Prune, cocoa and soft tannin: dishes that fit 10 Vendemmie

Tenuta Ulisse's own list is red meat, game and savoury first courses, and it calls this a meditation wine. At 14.5% with vanilla and cocoa from the oak, it wants lamb, steak or a slow ragu.

Body matching Strong match

Grilled lamb and Abruzzo's arrosticini

A full 14.5% red with prune and cocoa needs meat with real flavour, and lamb is Abruzzo's own answer. The char on a skewer of arrosticini picks up the tobacco and spice, while the soft tannin never fights the fat.

Try with: Arrosticini · Agnello Cacio e Ova · Spezzatino di pecora · Lamb chops · More pairings →

Tannin softening Strong match

Steak and slow-cooked beef

Red meat is first on the producer's own list. The fine tannin grips the protein and turns silkier, and the meat's juices make the cherry-jam fruit taste fresher. A plain steak suits it better than a heavily spiced sauce.

Try with: Ribeye steak · Sirloin steak · Beef stew · Fiorentina steak · More pairings →

Aromatic bridge Good match

Rich meat pasta and savoury first courses

Tenuta Ulisse names savoury first courses as a match. A slow ragu carries the same sweet, cooked-fruit depth as the prune and tobacco in the glass, and the wine's weight matches a baked pasta.

Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · Lasagna · Maccheroncini di Campofilone · More pairings →

Salt balance Good match

Aged pecorino and hard cheese

Salt in an aged cheese makes the ripe fruit taste riper and takes the edge off the oak. Abruzzo's own sheep's cheese is the natural partner; a sharp cheddar does the same job.

Try with: Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Caciocavallo farcito · Strong cheddar cheese · More pairings →

Sweet balance Good match

Dark chocolate and the end of the meal

The producer calls this a meditation wine, one to sip on its own. Its cocoa and coffee notes from the oak sit well with a square of dark chocolate or a cheese board, as long as the chocolate is bitter rather than sweet.

Try with: Chocolate cake · Torta Barozzi · Cheese board · More pairings →

Avoid Clash

Fish, fresh salads and hot chilli

A 14.5% red with vanilla oak flattens fish and a tomato salad, which want a crisp white like Pecorino from the same hills. Hot chilli makes the alcohol burn and the sweet oak taste sugary.

Skip with: Sashimi · Insalata Caprese · Chicken madras · Salmon · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Drink now to 2030, decanted

The blend already carries the softness of older wine, so there is little to gain from keeping it. xtrawine suggests an hour in a decanter and 18 to 20C. The magnum will hold a little longer.

Drinking window
2026 → 2030

Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.

Decanting
h1

A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.

Cellar potential
Medium

The blend already carries older wine and is built to drink on release; a year in French oak for part of it helps, but there is little to gain past 2030.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£26.90 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this 10 Vendemmie page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 13 Sep 2026, 00:11 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Drawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.

Confidence · Medium
Appellation rules & ageing

From the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.

Confidence · High
Why it costs what it costs

Our reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.

Confidence · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

Style guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium
Related

Tenuta Ulisse, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo and Montepulciano: linked pages

Producer
Tenuta Ulisse Abruzzo
Grapes
Montepulciano
Denomination
Vino da Tavola VDT
Region
Abruzzo Region guide
Cuisine
Italian Cuisine 2 dishes paired

Common Questions

Ten harvests. Tenuta Ulisse blends Montepulciano from ten different vintages into one bottle, so the wine has no single year on the label. The blend is made by the estate's oenologist, Antonio Ulisse.

Not on the producer's own label. Tenuta Ulisse's technical sheet calls it Vino Rosso, the basic category, because a DOC wine must carry a single vintage year and this blends ten. The grape is 100% Montepulciano from the Chieti hills, so merchants and Vivino still file it under Montepulciano d'Abruzzo.

Drinkers rate it very highly: 4.4 out of 5 from more than 15,700 Vivino ratings, which puts it in Vivino's top 1% of wines. James Suckling gave it 92 points and Luca Maroni 99.

£27 at xtrawine and £30.80 on offer at vino.com for the 75cl. The magnum in a wooden gift box is £74 on offer at vino.com. Prices on this page update as retailers change them.

Prune, cherry jam and tobacco with vanilla, cocoa and coffee from the year part of the wine spends in French oak. Full-bodied and soft at 14.5%, with fine tannin. The producer calls it a meditation wine: one to sip slowly.

Red meat, game and rich pasta, which is the producer's own list. Abruzzo's lamb skewers, arrosticini, are the local match; steak and a slow ragu work too. Decant it for an hour and serve at 18C.

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