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Cenatiempo Kalimera Biancolella, Ischia DOC

Cenatiempo Vini d'Ischia

Grape: Biancolella
Region: Campania
ABV: 13.5%
Drink: Now to 2026

Cenatiempo's 100% Biancolella from volcanic terraces at Serrara Fontana, 450m above the Bay of Naples. Concrete-fermented, no wood: straw-gold, with citrus, white peach and a salty, stony freshness. An Ischia DOC white to drink young with seafood.

Price

£33.00 Save 20%

2022 · 75cl · checked 25 Oct · Delivery £8, free on 4 bottles

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£33.00 price · 1 retailer in stock · checked 25 Oct 2026

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The Great Wine Co. Best price Save 20% 2022 · 75cl · checked 25 Oct · Delivery £8, free on 4 bottles

£33.00 was ~~regular price £41.00~~ £44.00/L

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Tasting Notes

Straw-gold, saline and stony: Kalimera 2022 in the glass

Cenatiempo pours straw yellow with golden lights. The producer notes citrus giving way to yellow-fleshed fruit, closing on aromatic herbs and Mediterranean scrub. Stone and minerals, honey, peach and grapefruit follow, carried on a light body with marked freshness.

Tasted by: ItalianWines editorial
Tasted on: 12 July 2026
Vintage in glass: 2022
Source: Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Typical of Biancolella: Body Light / Full

Tannins Smooth / Grippy

Sweetness Dry / Sweet

Acidity Soft / Crisp

Nose

Citrus leads, grapefruit and lemon, giving way to yellow-fleshed fruit, white peach and melon. Behind the fruit sits a stony, salty lift with honey and a whisper of Mediterranean herbs. Cenatiempo's own notes cite aromatic herbs and macchia scrub in the finish.

Grapefruit

Lemon

Melon

Pear

White peach

Wet stones

Almond

Honey

Palate

Light-bodied and dry, with a concentrated core and marked freshness. A fresh, savoury vein runs through the wine, over stone, minerals and honey. The volcanic character of Serrara Fontana comes through clearly.

Finish

The close is salty and stony, with good persistence, tailing off on the bitter almond that marks Biancolella.

Overall

A distinctly volcanic, single-grape Biancolella from Cenatiempo, one of Ischia's founding estates since 1945. It trades power for freshness and salty detail, and drinks best young with the Bay of Naples on the plate.

Drink now Best by 2026

Live UK pricing

Kalimera 2022 at 41 pounds: what the price buys

greatwine.co.uk sells the 2022 at 41 pounds. That buys hand-worked farming on Ischia's steep volcanic terraces, a 100% Biancolella from a grape grown almost nowhere else, and a family estate, Cenatiempo, farming these vines since 1945. UK excise duty of 2.67 pounds a bottle plus 20% VAT is charged before the wine reaches the shelf.

Best price · 75 cl · 2022 £33.00 at The Great Wine Co.

75cl · 2022 available from The Great Wine Co. £33.00, in stock

Vintages live 2022 Current release: 2022

Per-litre (75cl · 2022 basis) £44.00 Lowest current 75cl · 2022 offer

Last checked 25 Oct 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours

Wine fit score

How Cenatiempo Kalimera scores for value and everyday drinking

This is an everyday-plus island white, not a cellar wine. It rates well for food versatility and for interest to the curious drinker, thanks to a genuinely rare grape and a volcanic, salty profile. It rates low for ageing: Cenatiempo itself frames it as a wine to enjoy young.

Best with food 8.2/10

Built for coastal cooking: the freshness and salty core pair naturally with Bay of Naples seafood, from grilled fish to peppered mussels.

Best value 7.4/10

At 41 pounds it is not a bargain everyday white, but a hand-farmed, 100% Biancolella from a rare Ischia grape justifies the premium over supermarket bottles.

Best intro to this style 6.8/10

Easy to enjoy for its citrus and freshness, though Biancolella and Ischia DOC are unfamiliar names that reward a little curiosity.

Best for an occasion 6.6/10

A characterful, hard-to-find island white that earns its place at a summer table or a seafood dinner.

Best everyday bottle 6.3/10

Light, fresh and food-friendly for a weeknight by the coast, though the 41-pound price sits above true everyday territory.

Best for cellar 3.2/10

A drink-young wine: Cenatiempo suggests enjoying it soon, with only three to four years of useful cellar life.

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

Vintages

2022: a top-rated year for Cenatiempo Kalimera

Drinkers rate the 2022 among the best years for this wine. A warm, dry Italian summer was tempered here by altitude and sea breezes. The vineyards sit around 450 metres on Mount Epomeo's slopes, open to the four winds, which helps hold the citrus lift and salty edge of the style. Drink it now or over the next three to four years.

2022 Current release

Best price: £33.00
Retailers: 1 in stock
ABV: 13.5%
Window: Drink now through 2026

Vivino rates 2022 among the best years for Cenatiempo Kalimera, a 4.2 average from 60 ratings. Altitude and sea breezes on Mount Epomeo held freshness through a warm, dry summer.

2022 Current release

Best price: £33.00
Retailers: 1 in stock
ABV: 13.5%
Window: Drink now through 2026

Vivino rates 2022 among the best years for Cenatiempo Kalimera, a 4.2 average from 60 ratings. Altitude and sea breezes on Mount Epomeo held freshness through a warm, dry summer.

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 place, the label, the price

Region and area context

Cenatiempo Kalimera Biancolella Ischia DOC falls within Campania.

The zone the estate stands in The producer

Made at Cenatiempo Vini d'Ischia, Ischia. Directions

Reading the label

Cenatiempo Vini d'IschiaProducer / estate
BiancolellaGrape varieties
2022Vintage (year of harvest)
13.5% vol · 75 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
Imbottigliato all’origineEstate-bottled

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Impepata di cozze

Food Pairing

Grilled fish, mussels and Kalimera's saline lift

Cenatiempo's freshness and salty, stony core are built for the sea. Grilled fish, smoked fish roe, savoury pies and tomato-and-fish-sauce pasta all work, as do shellfish and vegetable antipasti. The acidity cuts fried and rich seafood, while the light body sits beside delicate Bay of Naples cooking rather than burying it.

Acidity matching Strong match

Cuts through Neapolitan peppered mussels

Kalimera's marked freshness and citrus lift slice through the garlic, black pepper and brine of impepata di cozze, a Bay of Naples classic that shares the wine's home waters.

Try with: Impepata di cozze · Fregula ai frutti di mare · More pairings →

Salt balance Strong match

Saline core meets grilled fish

The stony, salty character drawn from volcanic terraces at 450 metres echoes simply grilled sea bass or bream rather than fighting it, while the citrus keeps each bite fresh.

Try with: Grilled fish · Fregula ai frutti di mare · More pairings →

Fat cutting Good match

Freshness lifts whipped salt cod

Against the creamy richness of baccala mantecato, Kalimera's acidity and light body reset the palate, and its salty edge nods to the cod's own cure.

Try with: Baccala Mantecato · More pairings →

Body matching Good match

Light body for Campanian antipasti

A light-bodied, savoury white sits with the fresh mozzarella, tomato and basil of insalata caprese without flattening them, matching the delicate register of Bay of Naples starters.

Try with: Insalata Caprese · More pairings →

Aromatic bridge Good match

Mediterranean herbs bridge to the macchia

Cenatiempo cites aromatic herbs and Mediterranean scrub in the finish, a bridge to seafood seasoned with the wild fennel, oregano and thyme of the Campanian coast.

Try with: Grilled fish · Impepata di cozze · More pairings →

Avoid Clash

Skip fiery chilli heat

This is a delicate, dry white with no residual sugar to tame capsaicin. Aggressive chilli heat, as in a heavily spiced pasta all'arrabbiata, buries its citrus and stone detail and leaves the alcohol exposed.

Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Drink Kalimera 2022 young, cellar it briefly

This is not a wine to lay down. Cenatiempo frames the 2022 as one to enjoy now, with three to four years of cellar life at most. Serve it cool, around 8 to 10 degrees, to keep the citrus and salty edge sharp.

Drinking window

2023 → 2026

Peak around 2024. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.

Serving temperature

8-12°C

Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.

Cellar potential

Low

A drink-young wine: Cenatiempo suggests enjoying it soon, with only three to four years of useful cellar life.

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£33.00 for a 75cl bottle of the 2022, at The Great Wine Co., is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

How this Kalimera page was researched

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 25 Oct 2026, 01:16 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High

Tasting notes

Drawn from published drinker ratings, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.

Confidence · Medium

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

Explore Biancolella, Ischia and Campania

Producer

Cenatiempo Vini d'Ischia Campania

Grapes

Biancolella

Region

Campania Region guide

Cuisine

Italian Cuisine 1 dishes paired

Common Questions

Cenatiempo Kalimera is 100% Biancolella, the indigenous white grape of Ischia. The estate farms it on volcanic terraces above the Bay of Naples.

On volcanic terraces around Serrara Fontana, about 450 metres up on Ischia's Mount Epomeo. The Cenatiempo family has farmed the island's vines since 1945.

No. It ferments in concrete and sees no wood, keeping the fruit and salty freshness clean before bottling.

Straw-gold, with citrus and yellow-fleshed fruit over a salty, stony freshness and a light body. Stone, minerals, honey, peach and grapefruit are the notes that come up most.

Serve it at 8 to 10 degrees. It drinks well now and will hold three to four years in the cellar.

Coastal Campanian seafood: peppered mussels (impepata di cozze), seafood pasta, whipped salt cod and grilled fish. Its freshness and salty core suit the Bay of Naples table.

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