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Caccia al Piano Levia Toscana Rosato

Caccia al Piano 1868

Caccia al Piano splits this Bolgheri-estate rosato evenly between Syrah and Merlot, steel-fermented with four months on the lees. Expect pale salmon colour, wild strawberry and pink grapefruit, a saline snap, and easy 12% drinking.

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Tasting Notes

Tasting Levia: Caccia al Piano's steel-raised Tuscan rosato

Half Syrah, half Merlot from the estate on Via Bolgherese, pressed separately and left four months on the lees in steel. The producer calls the salty finish Levia's signature; UK merchant datasheets add wild strawberry, white peach and pink grapefruit.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial (style guidance)
Tasted on
10 July 2026
Vintage in glass
2024
Source
Style guidance · confidence Medium
Taste profile
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Pale salmon, leading with wild strawberry, white peach and pink grapefruit, the aromatic set both UK merchant datasheets record for the 2024. The 6 to 8 hour pre-press skin maceration Caccia al Piano gives its Syrah exists to heighten exactly this colour and lift.

Citrusy fruitCitrusy fruit
GrapefruitGrapefruit
StrawberryStrawberry
White peachWhite peach
Wet stonesWet stones
Palate

Crisp and mineral-driven, with the saline edge the producer calls Levia's signature. Four months sur lie with periodic batonnage lends a soft, gently creamy texture around the 12% frame, while a slow 15 to 20 day fermentation at low temperature, entirely in stainless steel, keeps the fruit taut rather than ripe.

Finish

Clean and refreshing, closing on that salty, sea-breeze note rather than sweetness; no oak touches the wine at any stage.

Overall

A contemporary coastal rosato from a Bolgheri estate, declared Toscana IGT and built to drink through 2026 at the producer's 8 to 10C serving range. Early Vivino drinkers place it at 4.0 from 31 ratings, consistent with its role as the fresh, immediate wine of the Caccia al Piano range.

Drink now Best by 2026
Live UK pricing

Where to buy Levia Toscana Rosato in the UK

Two UK merchants list the 2024 vintage: The Great Wine Co. at £27, easing to £24.30 a bottle on 12+ mixed cases, and Great Wines Direct at £25.42. Italian enoteca shelves carry it near 16 euros, so the UK premium is worth watching.

Best price · 75 cl £25.42 at Great Wines Direct
Price spread £25.42 – £27.00 Across 2 UK retailers tracked
Retailers tracked 2UK 2 in stock
Vintages live 2024 Current release: 2024
Per-litre (75 cl basis) £33.89 Per-litre price for the lowest current offer
Last checked 8 Jul 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

How Levia scores on the Italian Wine Fit Score

The scores below weigh Levia's shellfish-to-poultry table range, a £25.42 to £27 UK price against a 15.90 euro Italian shelf, and a drink-young steel build with no oak or ageing mandate behind it.

Best with food 8.8/10

Saline finish and grapefruit acidity span shellfish, lean fish, tomato antipasti and roast poultry, the high-flexibility table range Vivino's style guidance also maps for this wine.

Best intro to this style 8.5/10

Dry but fruit-led at 12%, steel-raised with no tannic grip or oak; the strawberry and pink-grapefruit profile and soft lees texture make it an easy first Tuscan rosato.

Best everyday bottle 6.0/10

The drink-young style suits midweek tables, but at £25.42 to £27 in the UK it prices above the everyday rosato band, so it leans occasional here despite its 15.90 euro Italian shelf price.

Best value 5.0/10

Derived editorially (price_aggregate is empty): £25.42 to £27 in the UK against a 15.90 euro Italian shelf at Enoteca Telaro is a full import premium for an IGT rosato without critic scores, partly offset by Bolgheri-estate provenance.

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

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Toscana in five fields

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

Allowed grapes
Variety list not yet recorded
This bottle: Syrah, Merlot.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Tuscany
Style
IGT · Toscana
Classification
IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica)
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Vintage 2024
£25.42
£33.89/L · checked 8 Jul
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Vintages

The 2024 season behind this Levia

Caccia al Piano's technical sheet describes 2024 as neatly divided: a hot, dry summer above 30C set between a cool, rainy spring and autumn. Merlot came in during the third decade of August before a cooler September rebalanced the rest of the harvest.

2024 Current release
Lowest price
£25.42
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
12.0%
Window
Drink now through 2026

Caccia al Piano's sheet calls 2024 a neatly divided season: a hot, dry summer above 30C set between a cool, rainy spring and autumn, with Merlot picked in the third decade of August. A rosato to drink young, through 2026.

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

Toscana IGT with a Bolgheri address: how Levia is classified

The estate farms on Via Bolgherese in Castagneto Carducci, yet declares Levia under the region-wide Toscana IGT rather than the Bolgheri DOC it uses for its Superiore red Levia Gravia. The IGT covers Tuscany as a whole and leaves the Syrah and Merlot blend free.

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.

Toscana 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.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. Varieties not yet recorded
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
03

Region and area context

Toscana falls within Tuscany , covering Tuscany.

04

Reading the label

  • Caccia al Piano 1868Producer / estate
  • Syrah · MerlotGrape varieties (in declared order of dominance)
  • Toscana IGTGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2024Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 12.0% vol · 75 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
05

What sits behind the price of Levia Toscana Rosato

Tracked from
£25.42
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
4 up / 1 down
Main factor
UK duty and VAT on a £25.42 bottle
  1. 01

    Two hand-picked harvests into 15 kg crates

    Cost up

    Caccia al Piano picks Syrah and Merlot separately, each by hand into 15 kg crates, then vinifies them apart; two picking passes and parallel tank work for one wine raise labour cost per bottle.

  2. 02

    Four months sur lie with batonnage

    Cost up

    The rosato sits four months on its lees with periodic batonnage before assemblage, tying up tank space and cellar labour through winter instead of shipping weeks after fermentation.

  3. 03

    UK duty and VAT on a £25.42 bottle

    Cost up

    HMRC duty on a 12% still wine adds £2.67, and VAT makes up about £4.24 of Great Wines Direct's £25.42; roughly £6.91 of the UK price is tax before freight enters the maths.

  4. 04

    Toscana IGT declaration and a steel-only cellar

    Cost down

    No oak is bought and no DOC ageing minimum applies: Levia ferments and matures solely in stainless steel under the region-wide IGT, keeping cellar cost far below the estate's Bolgheri Superiore red Levia Gravia.

  5. 05

    Import route nearly doubles the Italian shelf price

    Cost up

    Enoteca Telaro lists Levia 2024 at 15.90 euros in Italy, roughly half the £25.42 to £27 asked in the UK; freight plus importer and retail margin on a small Bolgheri-estate line explain the gap beyond duty and VAT.

01

Two hand-picked harvests into 15 kg crates

Cost up

Caccia al Piano picks Syrah and Merlot separately, each by hand into 15 kg crates, then vinifies them apart; two picking passes and parallel tank work for one wine raise labour cost per bottle.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that complement this wine

Food Pairing

Dishes for a saline, 12% Tuscan coast rosato

The salty finish the producer names as Levia's trait, plus grapefruit-fresh acidity, sets the logic: shellfish, lean fish, tomato antipasti and simple poultry, the same territory Vivino's style guidance maps for Central Italy rose.

Acidity matching Strong match

Tomato-led antipasti and summer salads

Levia's pink-grapefruit freshness, kept sharp by a slow cool fermentation in steel, runs level with raw tomato acidity instead of falling flat beside it. That same cut keeps mozzarella's cream from coating the palate.

Try with: Insalata Caprese · Pappa al Pomodoro · Panzanella · More pairings →

Salt balance Strong match

Shellfish that echo the saline finish

Caccia al Piano names the salty finish as Levia's characteristic trait, and it mirrors the brine of mussels and oysters the way a coastal white would. Salt in the dish also makes the wild-strawberry fruit read riper without any sugar.

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

Fat cutting Good match

Fried starters against a 12% steel rosato

At 12% with no oak and bright grapefruit-led acidity, Levia scrubs frying oil from the palate between bites. The soft lees texture from four months of batonnage stops the wine feeling thin next to batter and crumb.

Try with: Gnocco fritto · Pizza Fritta · Prawn Tempura · More pairings →

Body matching Good match

Lean fish and simple roast poultry

Four months sur lie gives Levia just enough weight to sit level with grilled swordfish or a plain roast chicken without smothering either. Vivino's style guidance for Central Italy rose maps the same lean fish and poultry territory.

Try with: Pesce spada alla Siciliana · Roast chicken · Salmon · More pairings →

Aromatic bridge Good match

Cured meats and Tuscan flatbreads

The wild-strawberry and white-peach aromatics in the 2024 bridge straight into prosciutto's sweet-salt cure, the melon-and-ham logic in rosato form. Olive-oil flatbreads pick up the saline note instead of fighting it.

Try with: Prosciutto e melone · Focaccia Genovese · Schiacciata · More pairings →

Avoid Clash

Big braises and serious chilli heat

A steel-raised 12% rosato has no tannin or oak to stand up to Barolo-scale braised beef, which flattens its delicate strawberry fruit. Heavy chilli heat strips the aromatics entirely and leaves only acid behind.

Skip with: Brasato al Barolo · Chicken madras · Szechuan beef · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Drink window for Levia 2024: not a cellar wine

Steel tanks only, four months sur lie, cork-sealed and released young: Caccia al Piano builds Levia for freshness. Drink the 2024 through 2026 at the producer's stated 8 to 10C.

Drinking window
2025 → 2026

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

Cellar potential
Low

Steel tanks only, four months sur lie, no oak and a producer serving range of 8-10C: Levia 2024 is built for the 2025-2026 window, not the cellar.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£25.42 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this Levia page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 8 Jul 2026, 21:33 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

A style read drawn from the grape and the appellation, not from this exact bottle. We mark these notes openly so you know what you are reading.

Confidence · Medium
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

Where Levia sits in the Tuscan wine map

Common Questions

Levia is 50% Syrah and 50% Merlot, per the estate's technical sheet. The varieties are hand-picked into 15 kg crates at separate times and vinified apart: Merlot is whole-cluster pressed, while Syrah macerates 6 to 8 hours on its skins before a slow, cool fermentation in stainless steel.

Caccia al Piano 1868, a Bolgheri estate on Via Bolgherese at Castagneto Carducci owned by the Ziliani family, the name behind Franciacorta's Guido Berlucchi. Levia is the estate's Toscana IGT rosato and a separate wine from its Bolgheri Superiore red, Levia Gravia.

Levia carries Toscana IGT, the regional indication covering all of Tuscany, which is how Caccia al Piano declares this Syrah and Merlot rosato; the estate reserves Bolgheri Superiore DOC for its flagship red Levia Gravia. The address stays coastal Bolgheri either way: the vineyards sit on Via Bolgherese in Castagneto Carducci.

Shellfish, lean fish, tomato-led antipasti and simple poultry. The salty finish the producer calls Levia's signature echoes mussels and oysters, the grapefruit-fresh palate handles Insalata Caprese and fried starters, and Vivino's style guidance maps the same shellfish, poultry and lean fish territory.

Serve at 8 to 10C, the range on the producer's 2024 technical sheet, and drink it through 2026. This is a steel-raised rosato with four months on the lees and no oak, made for freshness rather than cellaring.

As of July 2026, two UK merchants list the 2024 vintage: Great Wines Direct at £25.42 and The Great Wine Co. at £27, with the latter dropping to £24.30 a bottle on mixed purchases of 12 or more.

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