Azienda Agricola Anselmi Roberto
Roberto Anselmi's botrytised Garganega passito from Monteforte d'Alpone, dried on racks into January and aged in Allier oak. Honeyed apricot, saffron and toasted almond over bright acidity. A Veneto IGT dessert wine for blue cheese and almond tarts.
Drinkers on Vivino rate I Capitelli 4.2 across more than 1,250 ratings, returning again to its honey, dried apricot and saffron. The notes below trace that profile back to Anselmi's Allier-oak fermentation and noble-rot fruit.
Dehydrated apricot and saffron lead, the signature Anselmi describes for I Capitelli, lifted by orange zest and a custard note from its Allier oak fermentation. Vivino reviewers most often log honey and dried apricot.
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HoneyFull-bodied and luscious, with candied citrus, baked pear and toasted almond carried on honey, the concentration coming from Garganega bunches shrivelled on racks and set by noble rot. Bright acidity keeps the sweetness from cloying.
Long and honeyed, closing on saffron, almond and a faint orange-peel bitterness that balances the residual sugar.
A benchmark Veneto passito from Monteforte d'Alpone that drinkers rate 4.2 on Vivino across more than 1,250 ratings, praised for richness held in check by acidity. Built for blue cheese, foie gras or a glass on its own, and it rewards cellaring.
I Capitelli is sold mainly as a 0.375l half-bottle, the format both listed retailers stock. Live UK prices and stock for the current vintage sit in the table below.
A sweet, full-bodied passito earns its keep at the end of a meal rather than midweek. This Veneto IGT is priced and structured as an occasion and dessert wine.
Concentrated, sweet and acid-driven, it cellars for well over a decade; Anselmi's 2008 still rates 4.3 on Vivino.
A benchmark dessert wine with 92 to 95 point reviews, made for the end of a special meal or a cheese course.
At about £25 for the half-bottle, a botrytised passito carrying 92 to 95 point critic scores offers solid value for the dessert-wine category.
A specialist sweet-wine pairing: superb with blue cheese, foie gras and almond desserts, but narrow at the savoury dinner table.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our editorial methodology.
A compact view of what the Veneto denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
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Anselmi declares I Capitelli only in years when noble rot sets cleanly on the Garganega. The 2008 sits among Vivino's top 1% of all wines, a benchmark for the vintage on offer here.
Veneto 2023 was a wet, mildew-pressured season that rewarded rigorous selection. I Capitelli's hand-picked, noble-rot Garganega bunches dried on graticci into January sidestep much of that variability, giving a sweet, concentrated wine for drinking now or holding.
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.
Roberto Anselmi left the Soave appellation in 2000 over its yield rules and now labels his wines Veneto IGT. The facts below set out that appellation context and what drives the price of this passito.
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.
Veneto is in the IGT tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Veneto falls within Veneto , covering Veneto.
Only bunches taking noble rot are picked, then shrivelled on graticci until January, so each half-bottle uses several times the fruit of a dry wine.
Anselmi ferments the sweet must in French Allier oak and ages it eight months in the same barriques, a barrel cost carried by a 375ml bottle.
I Capitelli is held about a year in bottle after barrel, tying up cash and cellar space ahead of sale.
The standard 375ml format keeps the shelf price near £25 even though the per-litre cost is high for the category.
Bottling as Veneto IGT rather than a classified appellation removes any consortium price premium from the label.
UK duty on a 12.5% half-bottle runs about £1.34 and VAT adds roughly £4.20 to the £25.21 UK price.
Dishes that complement this wine
I Capitelli's honeyed sweetness and Garganega acidity are built for salty blue cheese and frangipane tarts, the pairings Anselmi itself recommends alongside foie gras and lobster.
The honeyed, noble-rot sweetness and bright Garganega acidity scour the salt and pungency of blue cheese, the contrast Anselmi itself recommends. Sweetness meets savoury rather than echoing it.
Try with: Blue cheese · Gorgonzola, pear, and walnut risotto · Cheese board · More pairings →
I Capitelli's dehydrated-apricot, saffron and toasted-almond signature mirrors frangipane and custard tarts note for note, so the wine extends the dessert instead of fighting it.
Try with: Bakewell Tart · Torta Della Nonna · Torta Barozzi · More pairings →
Its luscious, full body and raisin-honey depth stand up to panettone and Christmas pudding, dried-fruit bakes that flatten lighter dessert wines.
Try with: Panettone · Christmas Pudding · Sticky Toffee Pudding · More pairings →
Sweetness and acidity together cut through fatty foie gras and chicken-liver pate, a pairing Anselmi lists alongside lobster, and the wine refreshes the palate between rich mouthfuls.
Try with: Foie gras · Chicken liver pate · Duck rillettes
The wine's fresh acidity slices through cream and custard, letting cheesecake and bread-and-butter pudding taste lighter while the honeyed fruit echoes their sweetness.
Try with: Cheesecake · Bread and Butter Pudding · Torta Della Nonna
Very dark chocolate buries the wine's delicate saffron and apricot perfume, and chilli heat pushes its sweetness towards cloying. Keep I Capitelli away from bitter cocoa and spicy mains.
Skip with: Dark chocolate torte · Vindaloo · Sichuan hotpot · Pairing guide →
Botrytised Garganega with this concentration ages for well over a decade. Anselmi's 2008 still rates 4.3 on Vivino, so stored cool and dark the current release will hold and deepen.
Peak around 2031. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Concentrated, sweet and acid-driven, it cellars for well over a decade; Anselmi's 2008 still rates 4.3 on Vivino.
£25.21 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn 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 · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur 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 · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumI Capitelli is a sweet passito from Roberto Anselmi in Monteforte d'Alpone, made entirely from Garganega grapes left to shrivel on racks until January and touched by noble rot. It is bottled as a Veneto IGT rather than a Soave.
Roberto Anselmi resigned from the Soave appellation in 2000 in protest at its high permitted yields, and has since released all his wines, I Capitelli included, under the broader Veneto IGT.
Expect honeyed dried apricot, saffron, orange zest and toasted almond, full and luscious on the palate but lifted by fresh Garganega acidity. Vivino drinkers rate it 4.2 from more than 1,250 ratings.
It is a classic match for blue cheeses such as Gorgonzola, for foie gras, and for almond and dried-fruit pastries like panettone. It can also be served on its own as dessert.
Anselmi ages it eight months in Allier oak barriques plus a year in bottle before release, and top vintages like 2008 continue to improve for fifteen years or more when cellared cool and dark.
I Capitelli is sold mainly in a 0.375l half-bottle, the format stocked by the retailers listed here, with a 0.75l bottle made in some years.
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