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I Pastini
Cupa is I Pastini's single-grape Bianco d'Alessano from the Itria valley in Puglia. Pear, peach and delicate floral notes on a fresh, full-bodied dry white with a long, stony finish. The family says it ages well.
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The 2025 Cupa is a dry, single-grape Bianco d'Alessano from the Carparelli family's vineyards in the Itria valley. It is fermented cool and kept in steel tanks for about five months before bottling.
Delicate floral notes, pear and peach: the white fruit the Carparelli family picks out in its own note on Cupa. The 2025 is straw yellow with green glints, as the wine is when young. It smells delicate rather than loud.
Citrusy fruit
Grapefruit
Green Apple
Peach
Pear
Wet stonesDry and fresh, with the weight of a full-bodied white at only 12% alcohol. Pear and peach carry the fruit, with a stony edge running through it. It is fermented cool and kept in steel tanks for about five months, which keeps it fresh and well balanced.
The 2025 finishes long, as the producer's own note promises, with pear and a stony freshness staying well after each sip.
Cupa is the estate's single-grape Bianco d'Alessano, grown on the family's vineyards between Locorotondo and Martina Franca. The family says it needs patience and ages exceptionally well, so we would drink the 2025 from 2026 to 2030. Drinkers pick out its peach and stony freshness most.
Only one UK shop sells Cupa, at £14 for the 2025, so there is no second price to compare. It is a 75 cl bottle of 12% dry white, made by the Carparelli family near Martina Franca in Puglia.
Best with food and Best everyday bottle are its strongest cards. Cupa is a fresh, dry 12% white with enough body for mussels, seafood pasta and mild cheese.
Fresh acidity with a full body makes it flexible at the table. Mussels, seafood pasta, mild cheese and Puglia's vegetable pastas all suit it. Only red meat and rich beef sauces overwhelm it.
At £14 and 12% alcohol, it is a fresh, dry white for weeknight fish, pasta and vegetable dishes.
At £14 it costs a little less than most Puglia whites in UK shops. That is fair for a single-grape wine from a small family estate, which says the wine ages well.
Easy to like, with pear, peach and fresh acidity at 12% alcohol. Bianco d'Alessano will be new to most drinkers, and this is a gentle way to try a rare grape from Puglia.
The family says Cupa ages exceptionally well and needs patience, and it sells an older 2021 bottling. Still, this is a steel-aged 12% white: we would drink the 2025 by 2030.
A Valle d'Itria IGP white from a rare local grape is a talking point rather than a showpiece. Pick it for a seafood lunch, not a big celebration.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Valle d'Itria denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Early estimates put Puglia's 2025 crop about 17% above 2024, with water stored in spring helping vineyards through the summer heat. The family says Cupa needs patience, so we would drink the 2025 from 2026 to 2030.
Early estimates put Puglia's 2025 crop about 17% above 2024. Water stored in spring helped southern vineyards through the June and August heat waves. The producer says Cupa needs patience, so drink the 2025 from 2026 to 2030.
Early estimates put Puglia's 2025 crop about 17% above 2024. Water stored in spring helped southern vineyards through the June and August heat waves. The producer says Cupa needs patience, so drink the 2025 from 2026 to 2030.
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.
Bianco d'Alessano is grown almost only in Puglia, mostly in the Itria valley, where writings from 1870 already record it. The Carparelli family took cuttings from very old local vines to plant their 18 hectares, about 25 football pitches.
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.
Valle d'Itria 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.
Valle d'Itria falls within Puglia, covering Eight communes of the Itria valley karst across Bari, Brindisi and Taranto provinces, Alberobello to Ostuni.
Winery
Martina Franca
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Made at I Pastini, Martina Franca. Directions
I Pastini picks its grapes by hand in the early hours and sorts the bunches into small crates so the berries do not split. That takes more people and time than machine picking.
Bianco d'Alessano covered only about 411 hectares of Puglia in 2010, and the Carparelli family farms 18 in all. Small volumes of an uncommon grape cost more per bottle than a bulk white.
The family treats its vines with organic products only and feeds the soil by sowing legumes and turning them back in. That adds work in the vineyard.
Cupa spends about five months in steel tanks before bottling, and the 2025 was on sale in 2026. No barrels and no long cellar wait keep the price down.
Of the £14 bottle, about £5.10 is tax: £2.76 of duty at 12% alcohol and about £2.33 of VAT.
The producer suggests starters, soups, first courses with fish or white meat, vegetables and mild cheeses. Fresh acidity and a full body let Cupa handle a bowl of seafood pasta as well as a plate of mussels.
Salty shellfish softens the wine's acidity and brings out its pear and peach fruit. In turn, the freshness of this dry Bianco d'Alessano from Puglia keeps each mouthful of mussels clean. It has the body for breadcrumbs, garlic and olive oil too.
Try with: Cozze arraganate · Impepata di cozze · Fregula ai frutti di mare · More pairings →
The producer suggests first courses with fish, and body is the reason. Cupa is a full-bodied dry white, so it stands up to pasta and rice without swamping a light seafood sauce. Its pear and peach fruit sits well beside clams and prawns.
Try with: Fregula ai frutti di mare · Linguine with clams · Seafood risotto
Fresh acidity lifts the olive oil in these pastas, and the wine's gentle fruit softens the bitter edge of turnip tops and broccoli. It is a local match: a dry Bianco d'Alessano from the Itria valley with pastas from the same region.
Try with: Orecchiette con cime di rapa · Cavatelli con broccoli · Ciceri e tria · More pairings →
Fresh acidity cuts through the creamy fat of burrata and mozzarella, and the wine's gentle fruit does not bury their milky taste. Keep the cheese mild, as the producer advises. A strong blue would flatten this delicate Bianco d'Alessano.
Try with: Insalata Caprese · Burrata with tomatoes · Fresh ricotta
The producer calls Cupa full-bodied and lists white meat among its matches. That weight lets this dry Puglia white hold its own next to roast chicken or turkey. Its freshness keeps the plate from feeling heavy.
Try with: Roast chicken · Turkey escalopes with lemon · Chicken broth with pastina
Charred steak and rich beef sauces bury the delicate floral and white-fruit notes of this dry Bianco d'Alessano. The wine ends up tasting thin and sharp. Choose a soft, ripe Puglia red such as Primitivo for those dishes instead.
Skip with: Fiorentina steak · BBQ ribs · Beef stew · Pairing guide →
The family says Cupa ages exceptionally well and needs patience. Each year the estate also makes a few bottles of patiently aged Cupa, such as the Cupa 2021. We would drink the 2025 from 2026 to 2030.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
The family says Cupa ages exceptionally well and needs patience, and it sells an older 2021 bottling. Still, this is a steel-aged 12% white: we would drink the 2025 by 2030.
£14.00 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at Svinando, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighBased on the producer's published tasting notes.
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 · MediumCupa is made from 100% Bianco d'Alessano, an old white grape of Puglia. Writings from 1870 already record it around the Itria valley, and today it is grown almost only in Puglia.
Cupa is a dry, fresh white with pear and peach fruit, delicate floral notes and a long, stony finish. The producer calls it full-bodied and structured, at 12% alcohol.
No, Cupa is a Valle d'Itria IGP, a protected zone of eight towns in the Itria valley, with Martina Franca among them. Its rules let a white name its grape on the label, which is why Bianco d'Alessano appears there.
We would drink the 2025 from 2026 to 2030. The family says Cupa needs patience and ages exceptionally well, and each year it makes a few bottles of patiently aged Cupa, such as the 2021.
Mussels, seafood pasta, mild cheeses and vegetable pastas suit it best. The producer suggests starters, soups, first courses with fish or white meat, and cheeses with delicate flavours.
Svinando sells the 2025 at £14 a bottle. It is the only UK shop with the wine on this page, so there is no price to compare between shops.
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