DOCG Sweet

Banfi Rosa Regale Brachetto d'Acqui

Banfi Piemonte

Grape
Brachetto
Denomination
Brachetto d'Acqui/Acqui DOCG
Region
Piedmont
ABV
7.1%
Body
Light
Drink
2025: 2025 to 2027

A sweet sparkling red from Banfi Piemonte, made from the Brachetto grape. The 2025 smells of strawberries and rose and has 7.1% alcohol. Serve it with fresh strawberries, fruit salad or a fruit tart.

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2025 · 75cl · checked 6 Nov · Delivery charge shown at checkout

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Where to buy Banfi Rosa Regale Brachetto d'Acqui

£11.40 best price · 2 retailers with 75cl · 2025 in stock · checked 6 Nov 2026

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XtraWine Best price Save 12% 2025 · 75cl · checked 6 Nov · Delivery charge shown at checkout
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£11.40 was regular price £13.00 £15.20/L
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Vino.com Best price 2025 · 75cl · checked 6 Nov · Delivery usually £16.90, free over £129
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£13.50 £18.00/L
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Vino.com Best price 2025 · Magnum 150cl · checked 6 Nov · Delivery usually £16.90, free on 5 bottles
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£31.60 £21.07/L
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Cellier Best price 2024 · 75cl · checked 6 Nov · Delivery £5.99, free on 4 bottles
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£19.99 £26.65/L
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Tasting Notes

How Banfi's 2025 Rosa Regale tastes

Rosa Regale is made from Brachetto, which Banfi calls an ancient, aromatic grape typical of the area. The note below is for the 2025, the vintage the shops on this page sell.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial, from the producer's notes
Tasted on
19 November 2025
Vintage in glass
2025
Source
Producer notes · confidence High
Body
Light, from a UK shop's listing
Nose

Intense and fragrant, with strawberries and Bulgarian rose. It comes from Brachetto grapes picked from 22 August 2025, healthy and rich in aroma.

Rose petalRose petal
Forest berriesForest berries
RaspberryRaspberry
StrawberryStrawberry
Palate

Sweet and aromatic, with 105 grams of sugar per litre, well balanced by acidity. Fine, long-lasting bubbles form a marked ring at the rim of the glass. At 7.1% alcohol it feels light.

Finish

Wild berries linger on the finish. Banfi makes the bubbles by the Charmat method, in temperature-controlled steel tanks.

Overall

A light, sweet sparkling red for fruit desserts, and a Banfi Piemonte classic first made in 2000. We would drink the 2025 by the end of 2027.

Drink now Best by 2027
Live UK pricing

Where to buy Banfi Rosa Regale 2025 in the UK

Two shops on this page sell the 2025, at £13 and £17.20 a bottle.

Best price · 75 cl · 2025 £11.40 at XtraWine
Price spread · 75cl · 2025 £11.40 - £13.50 Across 2 UK retailers with 75cl · 2025 in stock
Retailers · 75cl · 2025 2UK 2 in stock
Vintages live 2025 Newest vintage on sale here: 2025
Per-litre (75cl · 2025 basis) £15.20 Lowest current 75cl · 2025 offer
Last checked 6 Nov 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Other vintages and formats: 1 price line

Magnum 150cl · 2025: £31.60, 1 UK retailer

Wine fit score

How Banfi Rosa Regale scores for food, value and occasions

Its strongest cards are Best intro to this style and Best for an occasion: a sweet, light sparkling red at 7.1% alcohol.

Best intro to this style 8.6/10

Sweet, fruity and sparkling: easy to like from the first sip, and a simple way into Brachetto d'Acqui.

Best for an occasion 7.6/10

A sweet red sparkling wine with a scent of rose suits birthdays, Valentine's Day and the dessert course at a dinner party.

Best value 7.2/10

At £13 the 2025 is among the cheaper Brachetto d'Acqui wines on this site, which is fair value for a DOCG sparkling wine.

Best with food 6.0/10

Made for fruit desserts: fresh strawberries, fruit salads, fruit tarts and small pastries. Its sweetness narrows the match, so it is not a wine for savoury main courses.

Best everyday bottle 4.0/10

Fairly priced, but a sweet dessert wine is a bottle for puddings and treats more than for weeknight meals.

Best for cellar 1.2/10

A young, fruity sparkling wine to drink soon after release. We would open the 2025 by the end of 2027 rather than keep it.

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

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Brachetto d'Acqui/Acqui in five fields

A compact view of what the Brachetto d'Acqui/Acqui denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
1 variety recorded so far
This bottle: Brachetto.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Asti · Alessandria
Source: Disciplinare.
Style
DOCG · Brachetto d'Acqui/Acqui
Classification
DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita)
What that means →
Vintages

Rosa Regale 2025: Brachetto picked from 22 August

Banfi describes a dry winter, then well-spread spring showers that left a solid water reserve. Storms on 17 and 18 August cooled the nights a few days before picking began.

2025 Newest vintage on sale here
Best price
£11.40
Retailers
3 in stock
ABV
7.1%
Window
Drink now through 2027

The 2025 Brachetto harvest began on 22 August, about seven to eight days earlier than the year before, after an intense heatwave in early August. Banfi reports perfectly healthy grapes, rich in aroma.

2024 No current offer here
Best price
not listed
Retailers
0 in stock
2025 Newest vintage on sale here
Best price
£11.40
Retailers
3 in stock
ABV
7.1%
Window
Drink now through 2027

The 2025 Brachetto harvest began on 22 August, about seven to eight days earlier than the year before, after an intense heatwave in early August. Banfi reports perfectly healthy grapes, rich in aroma.

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

Banfi Piemonte and Brachetto d'Acqui DOCG

Rosa Regale is Banfi Piemonte's Brachetto d'Acqui DOCG, and Banfi gives 2000 as its first vintage. It comes in two sizes, a 75 cl bottle and a 1.5 litre magnum.

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.

Brachetto d'Acqui/Acqui is in the DOCG tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. 1 variety recorded so far
  • Yield ceiling. 8.0 tonnes per hectare
  • Tasting panel. Chemical analysis and a tasting commission before sale, required by Italian law for every DOC and DOCG
03

Region and area context

Brachetto d'Acqui/Acqui falls within Piedmont, covering Asti · Alessandria.

Wine appellations of Piedmont

Producer: Banfi Piemonte, Strevi.

04

Reading the label

  • Banfi PiemonteProducer / estate
  • BrachettoGrape varieties
  • Brachetto d'Acqui/Acqui DOCGGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2025Vintage of the 75 cl bottle on sale here
  • 7.1% vol · 75 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
05

What sits behind the price of Banfi Rosa Regale Brachetto d'Acqui

Tracked from
£11.40
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
2 up / 2 down
Main factor
UK duty and VAT
  1. 01

    UK duty and VAT

    Cost up

    With VAT, about £3.58 of a £13 bottle is tax.

  2. 02

    At 7.1% alcohol, a lower duty band

    Cost down

    A 13% wine pays £30.62 per litre of pure alcohol, or £2.99 a bottle. Banfi's 2025 Rosa Regale pays £1.42, so its low strength saves about £1.57 in duty.

  3. 03

    Which shop you buy from

    Cost down

    The 2025 costs £13 at one shop on this page and £17.20 at the other, a gap of £4.20 for the same 75 cl bottle.

  4. 04

    The 1.5 litre magnum in a gift box

    Cost up

    Banfi makes the wine in both sizes.

01

UK duty and VAT

Cost up

With VAT, about £3.58 of a £13 bottle is tax.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Knafeh, plated

Knafeh
Tres Leches Cake plated with milk, cream, sugar

Tres Leches Cake
Bunuelos plated with flour, sugar, cinnamon

Bunuelos
Food Pairing

Strawberries, fruit tarts and pastries with Rosa Regale

Banfi suggests fresh strawberries, fruit salads, fruit tarts and delicate pastries. The wine is sweet, so pick desserts that are not sweeter than it is.

Sweet balance Strong match

Fresh strawberries and strawberry puddings

Rosa Regale is a sweet sparkling red Brachetto d'Acqui, so it stays sweeter than fresh fruit and does not taste sour beside it. Its own strawberry and rose scent picks up the fruit on the plate.

Try with: Fresh strawberries · Eton Mess · Fruit salad

Aromatic bridge Strong match

Fruit tarts and jam tarts

The wild berry and strawberry notes in this Brachetto d'Acqui meet the fruit in a tart. The bubbles freshen each bite of pastry, so the pairing feels light rather than heavy.

Try with: Bakewell Tart · Fruit tart · Strawberry tart

Acidity matching Good match

Fruit salad and fresh berries

Acidity keeps this sweet Brachetto from feeling heavy, so it matches the fresh, tangy side of mixed fruit. At 7.1% alcohol, Rosa Regale stays light enough for a summer bowl of berries.

Try with: Fruit salad · Mixed berries · Summer pudding

Fat cutting Good match

Cream and custard puddings

The bubbles and acidity in this sweet Brachetto d'Acqui cut through cream, so each sip leaves the mouth fresh. It suits light, creamy puddings better than dense ones.

Try with: Trifle · Eton Mess · Panna cotta

Body matching Good match

Small pastries and light cakes

Rosa Regale is a light Brachetto d'Acqui at 7.1% alcohol, so it suits delicate pastries better than heavy puddings. Banfi itself suggests small pastries with it.

Try with: Small pastries · Panettone · Torta Della Nonna

Avoid Clash

Puddings sweeter and heavier than the wine

A pudding sweeter than the wine makes this light Brachetto d'Acqui taste thin and sharp. Keep Rosa Regale away from treacle, toffee and very sweet milk cakes.

Skip with: Sticky Toffee Pudding · Treacle Tart · Tres Leches Cake · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Keeping Banfi Rosa Regale 2025: drink by 2027

This is a wine to drink young, not to cellar, and Banfi gives no ageing advice for it.

Drinking window
2025: 2025 to 2027

For the main offer above.

Cellar potential
Low

A young, fruity sparkling wine to drink soon after release. We would open the 2025 by the end of 2027 rather than keep it.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£11.40 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at XtraWine, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this Banfi Rosa Regale page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page several times a week. Last refresh: 6 Nov 2026, 02:10 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Based on the producer's published tasting notes.

Confidence · High
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, from how this wine is made, UK duty and VAT and the price shops charge for it today. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.

Confidence · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

The drinking years for the main offer apply to its 2025 vintage. Treat them as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium
Related

Banfi Piemonte, Brachetto and Brachetto d'Acqui DOCG

Producer
Banfi Piemonte Piedmont
Grapes
Brachetto
Denomination
Brachetto d'Acqui/Acqui DOCG
Region
Piedmont Region guide
Cuisine
Mexican 2 dishes paired Lebanese Cuisine 1 dish paired

Common Questions

Rosa Regale is a sweet sparkling red from Banfi Piemonte, made from the Brachetto grape as a Brachetto d'Acqui DOCG. Banfi calls it one of its classics, first made in 2000.

It is sweet, with 105 grams of sugar per litre in the 2025, and light at 7.1% alcohol. Its acidity keeps the sweetness in balance.

Fruit desserts suit it best: Banfi suggests fresh strawberries, fruit salads, fruit tarts and delicate pastries. Avoid puddings sweeter than the wine, such as treacle tart or sticky toffee pudding.

The 2025 costs £13 to £17.20 a bottle at the two shops on this page.

Drink it young: we would open the 2025 by the end of 2027. Banfi gives no ageing advice for it.

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