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Tormaresca's pale pink Puglian rosé, 100% Negroamaro from vines by the Adriatic at Masseria Maìme. Dry and 12%, with pink grapefruit, nectarine and a light salty finish. Drink within two years. About £17 to £23 a bottle in the UK.
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Tormaresca's own note for the 2025 lists pink grapefruit, lychee, nectarine and jasmine. Vivino drinkers, in 1,114 written reviews, mention strawberry and raspberry first, then peach and citrus. Both agree on the finish: fresh, with a light salty edge from vineyards a short walk from the Adriatic.
Tormaresca's own note for the 2025 opens with pink grapefruit, nectarine and lychee, with jasmine behind the fruit. Drinkers on Vivino reach first for strawberry and raspberry, then peach and citrus. There is a faint sea-air note too: Callmewine's tasters call it iodine, and the Masseria Maìme vines sit just inland from the Adriatic.
Grapefruit
Jasmine
Rose petal
Lychee
Peach
Pineapple
Raspberry
StrawberryDry, light and 12% alcohol, with no tannin to speak of. The juice settled at 12°C and fermented at 16°C, and it shows: the fruit tastes fresh rather than jammy. The first sip is soft, then bright acidity takes over. In the warm, dry 2025 summer the sea breezes kept that freshness, and a light salty grip arrives at the end.
Medium length. The grapefruit fades into a salty, savoury note. Wine Enthusiast's Danielle Callegari found 'pink grapefruit and salt' on the 2023, and that is exactly where this wine ends.
Drink the 2025 now and through 2027. It is the estate's best-known wine and a good first Puglian rosé: pale, dry, fruity and only 12%. Drinkers agree across vintages, 4.0 to 4.1 on Vivino from more than 15,000 ratings, praising freshness and value. Wine Enthusiast rated the 2023 91 points and the 2022 90.
The 2025 sells for around £17 to £20 a bottle at vino.com; the 2024 is £22.99 at Cellier. A gift-boxed magnum of the 2025 is £36.74, less than two standard bottles. Buy the youngest vintage you can find: this is a rosé built to drink within two years.
It scores high for beginners and for food: 12% alcohol, dry but fruity, salty at the finish. It scores low for cellaring because it is built for freshness, and its £17 to £23 price keeps it just above an everyday bottle.
Pale, dry, fruity and only 12%, with no tannin and no oak: an easy first Italian rosé, and the Tormaresca name is easy to find in UK shops.
A dry, salty 12% rosé with fresh acidity: it suits raw fish, shellfish, oily fish, tomato dishes and light Apulian starters, and only hot chilli defeats it.
Light and easy at 12%, but £17 to £23 a bottle puts it above a casual midweek price for most people.
At about £17 to £20 for the 2025 it costs more than most Italian rosé on UK shelves. Vivino's 4.0 from over 15,000 ratings, Tannico's 91 out of 100 and Wine Enthusiast's 90 and 91 points back the premium.
Antinori family ownership, a Vivino top-25 listing for Southern Italy rosé and a yearly gift-box Magnum d'Artista make it a safe summer-party bottle, though it is not a prestige wine.
Steel tanks, no oak and a few months in bottle: Tormaresca releases it to drink young, and Callmewine's guidance is perfect to drink now. Two years is the limit.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Salento denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
All three follow the same recipe: dry summers, sea breezes and picking from late August. 2025 was picked on a normal date after a warm, dry summer with cool nights. 2024 came in two weeks early, from 7 August, and sits at 12.5% rather than 12%. 2023 ran late and long after a hot summer, and is now past its best.
A mild, wet winter filled the soil with water, then spring and summer stayed dry, warm by day and cool at night, with Adriatic breezes keeping the grapes fresh. Tormaresca picked between late August and 18 September, a normal date. Bright and aromatic; drink through 2027.
An early year: the Calafuria grapes came in between 7 August and 3 September, about two weeks ahead of normal, after a warm summer without extreme heat spikes. Sea breezes kept good day-night swings, so the wine stayed fresh at 12.5%. Drink it in 2026.
A mild, wet winter filled the soil with water, then spring and summer stayed dry, warm by day and cool at night, with Adriatic breezes keeping the grapes fresh. Tormaresca picked between late August and 18 September, a normal date. Bright and aromatic; drink through 2027.
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.
Wine Enthusiast gave the 2023 91 points and the 2022 90. Tannico rates the 2025 at 91 out of 100, and the AIS Vitae guide gives the 2024 three out of four. On Vivino it averages 4.0 from more than 15,000 ratings, with the 2025 at 4.1 from 378.
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.
Salento 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.
Salento falls within Puglia.
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Tormaresca is the Antinori family's Puglia estate, founded in 1998, with Renzo Cotarella as winemaker and a yearly Magnum d'Artista gift edition. That name and marketing budget sit inside the price; a no-name Salento rosé does not carry them.
Tormaresca's sheet describes hand selection, destemming, gentle pressing, settling at 12°C and fermenting at 16°C, then a short rest on the lees. Chilling juice and tanks for weeks costs energy and time that a quick, warm tank rosé skips.
Calafuria goes from harvest to shelf in about six months. There are no barrels to buy and no cellar stock tying up money for years, which is why a wine from an Antinori estate still lands under £20.
At 12% alcohol the 2025 carries about £2.76 of UK duty per 75cl bottle, and VAT adds £3.22 on a £19.34 price. Together that is roughly 31% of what you pay. The same bottle lists at about 12.60 euro in Italy.
Masseria Maìme runs to 500 hectares, about 350 of them vineyard (roughly 500 football pitches), and Calafuria is its best-known wine, rated more than 15,000 times on Vivino. Volume like that spreads the estate's costs across many bottles and keeps the shelf price down.
Vino.com sells the 2025 Magnum d'Artista, 1.5 litres in a gift box, for £36.74. Two standard bottles at £19.34 come to £38.68, so the artist edition is the cheaper way to buy the same wine for a party.
Dishes that go with this wine
Tormaresca pairs it with sushi, raw fish, seafood pasta, summer salads and pizza. Its salty finish and 12% alcohol make it a natural with Puglia's own mussels and octopus. Skip hot curries: chilli heat makes a delicate rosé taste thin.
Calafuria's acidity is bright but not sharp, thanks to a cool 16°C fermentation, and its 12% alcohol never overpowers delicate raw fish. Its pink grapefruit note plays the part a squeeze of citrus normally does. Wine Enthusiast called the 2023 'citrusy salinity', which is exactly what sashimi wants.
Try with: Sashimi · Nigiri Sushi · Prawn Tempura · Ceviche · More pairings →
The wine ends on a light salty note, which Tormaresca puts down to vines a short walk from the Adriatic. Briny mussels and oysters meet that saltiness head on, and the wine's fruit tastes rounder for it. Puglia's baked mussels, cozze arraganate, are the home match.
Try with: Impepata di cozze · Cozze arraganate · Fregula ai frutti di mare · Oysters · More pairings →
Salmon, tuna and swordfish carry more fat than white fish, and a delicate rosé can taste thin next to them. Calafuria's acidity and grapefruit edge cut through that oil and clean the palate. Vivino lists rich fish among its best matches, and its drinkers mention citrus 234 times.
Try with: Salmon · Tuna · Pesce spada alla Siciliana · More pairings →
Ripe tomato is fruity and acidic, and so is this wine. Its strawberry and raspberry notes, the flavours Vivino drinkers mention most, sit alongside tomato rather than fighting it. Tormaresca itself lists pizza and summer salads among Calafuria's pairings.
Try with: Insalata Caprese · Pizza Margherita · Focaccia Barese · Orecchiette con cime di rapa · More pairings →
At 12% and with no oak, Calafuria is light-bodied, so it suits food of the same weight. Octopus stew, fried panzerotti and steamed sea bass all have gentle flavours that a bigger wine would bury. Tormaresca names typical Apulian starters as a natural match.
Try with: Polpo alla pignata · Panzerotti · Steamed sea bass · Salt and pepper prawns
Chilli heat makes a light, dry rosé taste thin and hot, and it wipes out Calafuria's delicate grapefruit and jasmine. A dry 12% wine has no sweetness to soothe the burn either. Save it for milder food, or pour a lightly sweet, aromatic white, an Alto Adige Gewürztraminer, with the curry.
Skip with: Green curry · Lamb bhuna · Crispy chilli beef · Szechuan beef · Pairing guide →
Steel tanks, no oak and a few months in bottle mean the wine is finished when it is released each spring. Tormaresca and Callmewine both say drink it young. The one collectable is the yearly Magnum d'Artista, a 1.5 litre gift-box edition with a new artist label each year.
Peak around 2026. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Steel tanks, no oak and a few months in bottle: Tormaresca releases it to drink young, and Callmewine's guidance is perfect to drink now. Two years is the limit.
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Confidence · HighNotes published by the producer, quoted with attribution.
Confidence · HighFrom 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 · MediumCalafuria is 100% Negroamaro. The grapes grow at Tormaresca's Masseria Maìme estate near San Pietro Vernotico, on Puglia's Adriatic coast, and the name comes from one of the 700-plus bays along that coast. The juice sits on the dark skins only very briefly, which is why the wine is such a pale pink.
It is dry. Calafuria has 12% alcohol in the 2025 vintage, fresh acidity and a light salty finish. The fruit you taste, pink grapefruit, nectarine and strawberry, reads as fruity rather than sugary.
Buy the 2025 if you can find it. Tormaresca picked it between late August and 18 September 2025 after a warm, dry summer with cooling sea breezes, and it will drink well through 2027. The 2024 is still fresh but is best finished this year. In the UK it costs about £17 to £23 a bottle.
Drink it within two years of the harvest. Calafuria is made in steel tanks with no oak and only a few months in bottle, so it is at its best young. Once opened, it keeps for two or three days in the fridge.
Fish and seafood first. Tormaresca suggests sushi, raw fish, seafood pasta, summer salads and pizza. Its salty finish suits Puglia's own mussels and octopus. Avoid hot curries, which make a delicate 12% rosé taste thin.
No. Furìa di Calafuria is a separate, pricier Tormaresca rosé, about £27 at Xtrawine and £39.99 at Cellier. Calafuria is the estate's classic pale rosé at roughly half that price.
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