DOC White

Mustilli Falanghina del Sannio DOC

Azienda Agricola Mustilli
Grape
Falanghina
Denomination
Falanghina del Sannio DOC
Region
Campania
ABV
13.5%
Body
Medium
Drink
Now to 2028

A dry Campania white from the family that first bottled Falanghina on its own. Annurca apple, white peach and a stony, salty finish from hillside vines at Sant'Agata de' Goti. Steel only, no oak. One UK shop sells the 2025, at £20.20.

Price
£16.70 Save 20%

2025 · 75cl · checked 25 Oct · Delivery usually £16.90, free over £129

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Where to buy Falanghina del Sannio DOC Mustilli

£16.70 price · 1 retailer in stock · checked 25 Oct 2026

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Tasting Notes

What Mustilli's Falanghina del Sannio tastes like

Our note on the Mustilli Falanghina del Sannio, the wine this family has made from the hills of Sant'Agata de' Goti since the 1970s. Steel only, no oak, so what you taste is the grape, the volcanic soil and a cool 15C ferment.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial, from the producer's notes
Tasted on
3 October 2026
Vintage in glass
2025
Source
Producer notes · confidence High
Body
Medium, from the producer's sheet
Typical of Falanghina
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Annurca apple first, the small red-skinned apple of Campania, with pear, white peach and a hint of tropical fruit behind it. White flowers and a touch of spice sit over the fruit. Mustilli ferments in steel at a cool 15C, so the aromas stay clean and bright, with no oak in the way.

LemonLemon
Orange peelOrange peel
AppleApple
MelonMelon
PearPear
White peachWhite peach
Wet stonesWet stones
SpicySpicy
Palate

Dry and medium-bodied, with lively acidity from vines at 250 metres and summer nights up to 15C cooler than the days. The three hillside plots, Presta, Pozzillo and Cesco di Nece, sit on volcanic clay with limestone. You taste it as a stony, faintly salty grip. A few months on the lees with regular stirring add a soft, rounded middle without any heaviness.

Finish

Long and clean, closing on lemon, orange pith and a gentle bitter edge like apple skin, the mark of Falanghina grown in these hills. It leaves the mouth fresh and a little salty.

Overall

A benchmark Falanghina from the family that first bottled the grape on its own. It is the estate's everyday white, below the single-vineyard Vigna Segreta. Drink it from 2026 to 2028 with seafood. Drinkers pick out its stony side as much as its orchard fruit, and it has scored 87 to 92 points across recent vintages, with 90 from James Suckling for the 2018.

Drink now Best by 2028
Live UK pricing

Buying Mustilli Falanghina del Sannio in the UK

Vino.com is the only UK shop we track with this wine, so there is no price spread to compare. The 2025 was in stock at £20.20 when we last checked. That is towards the top of the Falanghina del Sannio prices we see. It fits a small family estate that picks by hand and takes about 2 kg of grapes from each vine.

Best price · 75 cl · 2025 £16.70 at Vino.com
75cl · 2025 available from Vino.com £16.70, in stock
Vintages live 2025 Current release: 2025
Per-litre (75cl · 2025 basis) £22.27 Lowest current 75cl · 2025 offer
Last checked 25 Oct 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

How Mustilli Falanghina del Sannio scores for food, value and everyday drinking

High marks for food and for a first taste of a Campania grape: fresh, dry, no oak, and 13.5% alcohol in balance. Lower for value, because £20.20 sits above the £16.50 middle price of the Falanghina del Sannio we track, and low for the cellar, because this is a wine made to drink young.

Best with food 8.4/10

Fresh acidity, a salty finish and no oak. That is a white built for seafood, fried starters and vegetables, so it scores high for food.

Best intro to this style 8.2/10

A dry, fruity, unoaked white from a classic Campania grape at a mid price. An easy first Falanghina, with Annurca apple and a clean finish.

Best everyday bottle 6.2/10

Easy to drink and made to open young. At £20.20 it sits just above the everyday price line, so the score drops a little.

Best value 4.8/10

Priced at £20.20 at the one UK shop we track, against a £16.50 middle price across 13 in-stock Falanghina del Sannio listings (ratio 1.22). So value scores below the middle.

Best for an occasion 4.5/10

A DOC white from a historic family estate at about £20. A good dinner-with-friends bottle rather than a trophy.

Best for cellar 3.0/10

Steel only, no oak and no ageing rule in the DOC. It is made to drink within a few years, so it is not a wine to lay down.

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

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Falanghina del Sannio in five fields

A compact view of what the Falanghina del Sannio denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
1 varieties listed
This bottle: Falanghina.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Benevento
Source: Disciplinare.
Style
DOC · Falanghina del Sannio
Classification
DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata)
What that means →
Vintages

The 2025 Mustilli Falanghina: a warm, early year in Sannio

The 2025 harvest in Sannio began in the last week of August, earlier than usual, after a mild winter and a hot June and July. Summer storms brought cooler nights, and the grapes came in healthy. Mustilli's 2025 is 13.5% alcohol, the same as the 2024.

2025 Current release
Best price
£16.70
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
13.5%
Window
Drink now through 2028

A warm, early year in Sannio: a mild winter, a hot June and July, then summer storms that cooled the nights. The Falanghina harvest started in the last week of August with healthy grapes. Mustilli's 2025 came in at 13.5% alcohol, the same as the 2024.

2025 Current release
Best price
£16.70
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
13.5%
Window
Drink now through 2028

A warm, early year in Sannio: a mild winter, a hot June and July, then summer storms that cooled the nights. The Falanghina harvest started in the last week of August with healthy grapes. Mustilli's 2025 came in at 13.5% alcohol, the same as the 2024.

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

Why Mustilli matters for Falanghina

Leonardo Mustilli is credited with the first single-variety Falanghina, from 1976, and the first bottles date to 1979. His daughters Paola and Anna Chiara now run the 10-hectare estate in Sant'Agata de' Goti. This wine scored 92 and 90 points with James Suckling for the 2017 and 2018.

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.

Falanghina del Sannio is in the DOC 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 varieties listed in the disciplinare
  • Yield ceiling. 12.0 tonnes per hectare
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
03

Region and area context

Falanghina del Sannio falls within Campania, covering Benevento.

Falanghina del Sannio DOC zone The producer

Made at Azienda Agricola Mustilli, S. Agata dei Goti. Directions

04

Reading the label

  • Azienda Agricola MustilliProducer / estate
  • FalanghinaGrape varieties
  • Falanghina del Sannio DOCGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2025Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 13.5% volAlcohol by volume
  • Imbottigliato all’origineEstate-bottled
05

What sits behind the price of Falanghina del Sannio DOC Mustilli

Tracked from
£16.70
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
4 up / 1 down
Main factor
Hand-picked grapes from three hillside plots at 250 m, about 2 kg of fruit per vine
  1. 01

    Hand-picked grapes from three hillside plots at 250 m, about 2 kg of fruit per vine

    Cost up

    Mustilli picks the Presta, Pozzillo and Cesco di Nece vineyards by hand and takes about 2 kg of grapes from each vine. That is 7 tonnes a hectare, against the 11 the DOC allows in the Sant'Agata dei Goti zone. Fewer grapes per vine means more cost per bottle.

  2. 02

    A small family estate: about 80,000 bottles a year from five grapes

    Cost up

    Mustilli is an independent family grower (a FIVI member) with vines covering about 14 football pitches. Small volumes spread the fixed costs of a winery over fewer bottles.

  3. 03

    Steel tanks only, no barrels

    Cost down

    The wine ferments at 15C in steel and stays in steel until bottling. No oak barrels to buy or replace, which keeps the cost below an oak-aged white.

  4. 04

    A track record with the critics

    Cost up

    This wine has scored 87 to 92 points across recent vintages, including 90 from James Suckling for the 2018, and averages 89 across 39 critic reviews. That reputation supports a price above the Falanghina del Sannio average.

  5. 05

    UK duty and VAT

    Cost up

    Of the £20.20 price, about £6.47 is tax: £3.10 duty on a 13.5% wine (0.75 litres x 13.5% x £30.62 per litre of pure alcohol since 1 February 2026) and £3.37 VAT. That is roughly a third of what you pay.

01

Hand-picked grapes from three hillside plots at 250 m, about 2 kg of fruit per vine

Cost up

Mustilli picks the Presta, Pozzillo and Cesco di Nece vineyards by hand and takes about 2 kg of grapes from each vine. That is 7 tonnes a hectare, against the 11 the DOC allows in the Sant'Agata dei Goti zone. Fewer grapes per vine means more cost per bottle.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Pizza Marinara, plated

Pizza Marinara
Impepata di cozze on stoneware bowl with Garlic, Mussels, Olive Oil

Impepata di cozze
Peperoni Cruschi, plated

Peperoni Cruschi
Fish and Chips, plated

Fish and Chips
Chicken dhansak, plated

Chicken dhansak
Food Pairing

Seafood, fried starters and vegetables: dishes for Mustilli Falanghina

A dry white with fresh acidity, a salty finish and no oak. That is why mussels, clams and fried starters work: the acid cuts the fat, and the salt in the wine meets the salt on the plate. The family's own list runs from shellfish to rice dishes, fish carpaccio and white meats.

Acidity matching Strong match

Mussels, clams and the Campania seafood table

Fresh acidity and a salty finish are what this wine does best. The acid lifts the sweetness of shellfish, and the salt in the wine meets the brine on the plate. Mustilli's own list starts here, with seafood and shellfish, and the steel-only ageing keeps the fruit clean beside them.

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

Fat cutting Good match

Fried starters and buffalo mozzarella

Fried food and fresh cheese coat the mouth with fat. The wine's acidity cuts through it and resets the palate, so each bite tastes as fresh as the first. There is no oak to fight the batter or the milkiness, only Annurca apple fruit and a cool, clean texture.

Try with: Arancini · Gnocco fritto · Pizza Fritta · Insalata Caprese · More pairings →

Aromatic bridge Good match

Baked vegetables, herbs and tomato

Falanghina's white flowers, apple and gentle spice echo herbs, baked vegetables and sweet tomato rather than fighting them. Mustilli lists vegetables and rice dishes among its own pairings. A rich baked aubergine or a simple tomato and mozzarella pizza stays light next to the wine's fresh acidity.

Try with: Eggplant parmesan · Pizza Margherita · Torta pasqualina · More pairings →

Body matching Good match

White meats and a simple roast chicken

Medium body and 13.5% alcohol give the wine enough weight for chicken and veal without a heavy sauce. The fruit stays in step with the meat, and the salty finish does the job a squeeze of lemon would. The family names white meats on its own pairing list.

Try with: Cotoletta alla Milanese · Vitello Tonnato · Roast chicken · More pairings →

Salt balance Good match

Oysters and the British seafood counter

Salt in the wine and salt in the food cancel each other out, leaving the sweetness of the shellfish. Oysters, potted shrimp and crisp battered fish all suit a dry white with a stony, saline finish and no oak. Serve it well chilled, at 10 to 12C, as the producer advises.

Try with: Oysters · Potted Shrimp · Fish and Chips · Salt and pepper squid · More pairings →

Avoid Clash

Hot curries, sweet sauces and big red-meat braises

Chilli heat makes a 13.5% dry white taste hotter and thinner, and sweet sauces make it taste sour. Slow-braised beef and charred steak want tannin, which this wine does not have. Keep it for fish, vegetables and white meat.

Skip with: Chicken madras · Crispy chilli beef · Sweet and sour pork · Brasato al Barolo · Fiorentina steak · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Keeping Mustilli Falanghina del Sannio: drink it young

This is not a cellar wine. Mustilli makes it in steel for freshness, and it is best drunk within a few years of harvest. We would open the 2025 between 2026 and 2028. The estate's single-vineyard Vigna Segreta, about 3,000 bottles a year with long ageing on its lees, is a different wine with its own page.

Drinking window
2026 → 2028

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

Decanting
Not needed

Pour it straight from the bottle.

Serving temperature
8-12°C

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

Cellar potential
Low

Steel only, no oak and no ageing rule in the DOC. It is made to drink within a few years, so it is not a wine to lay down.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£16.70 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at Vino.com, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind our Mustilli Falanghina note

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 25 Oct 2026, 03:35 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, 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

Mustilli, Sannio and Falanghina: the pages around this bottle

Producer
Azienda Agricola Mustilli Campania
Grapes
Falanghina
Denomination
Falanghina del Sannio DOC
Region
Campania Region guide
Cuisine
Indian Cuisine 8 dishes paired Chinese Cuisine 7 dishes paired Thai Cuisine 5 dishes paired

Common Questions

Mustilli, a family estate in Sant'Agata de' Goti, in the Sannio hills of Campania. The grapes come from three of the family's own vineyards, Presta, Pozzillo and Cesco di Nece, at 250 metres on slopes that face south-west. The soil is volcanic clay with limestone rock. Sisters Paola and Anna Chiara Mustilli run the estate: 10 hectares and about 80,000 bottles a year across the whole range.

The family says so. Leonardo Mustilli saw the grape's potential in 1976 and began making it as a single-variety wine, at a time when most growers blended it away or sold the grapes in bulk. The Italian wine press dates the first bottles to 1979, and one of them is still kept in the family's old cellars under the town. Falanghina is now grown right across Campania.

Dry, fresh and medium-bodied. Expect Annurca apple, pear and white peach, a little tropical fruit, white flowers and a touch of spice. The wine is made in steel at a cool 15C and never sees oak, so the fruit stays clean. The finish is stony and slightly salty, with the gentle bitter edge of apple skin that Falanghina often shows. Serve it cold, at 10 to 12C.

Vino.com is the only UK shop we track that sells it. When we last checked, on 1 October 2026, the 2025 vintage was in stock at £20.20 a bottle. With one seller there is no price to compare between shops, so the link on this page goes straight to that listing.

Drink it young. Mustilli makes this wine for freshness, and it is best enjoyed within a few years of the harvest. We would open the 2025 between 2026 and 2028. The 2025 season in Sannio was warm, with an early harvest from the last week of August, healthy grapes and 13.5% alcohol in the finished wine.

Seafood first. Mussels, clams and a seafood fregula suit its fresh acidity and salty finish. It also handles fried starters and buffalo mozzarella, which its freshness cuts through, and vegetable dishes such as eggplant parmesan. The family suggests shellfish, rice dishes, fish carpaccio and white meats. Keep it away from hot chilli and heavy braised red meat.

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