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Caccia al Piano 1868
Limited-edition Bolgheri DOC Bianco from the Ziliani family's Caccia al Piano estate: 70% Vermentino, 30% Sauvignon Blanc, aged a year in casks and ceramic amphorae. A saline, citrus-led coastal white rated 4.1 by Vivino drinkers.
Caccia al Piano ferments the two varieties separately at 15C, then rests them for a year in casks, tonneaux, barriques and ceramic amphorae; Falstaff's tasters found ripe yellow apple, dandelion and a vanilla touch in the 2021.
Ripe citrus and yellow apple lead, lifted by white flowers and the grassy, Mediterranean-scrub edge of the 30% Sauvignon Blanc share. Falstaff's tasters also picked out dandelion and a touch of vanilla, the mark of Caccia al Piano's year in casks, tonneaux, barriques and ceramic amphorae.
Citrusy fruit
Acacia
Apple
Grassy
Wet stones
Butter
VanillaSurprisingly fresh for a wood-raised white, as Falstaff put it of the 2021: whole-cluster pressed Vermentino fermented at 15C keeps the line taut, while the cryo-macerated Sauvignon Blanc adds a subtle creaminess. Underneath runs the saline, wet-stone tension of Bolgheri's sandy coastal soils, and the 2023's long, gradual ripening preserved the acidity at a moderate 12% alcohol.
Refreshing rather than broad, closing on citrus and a lightly savoury, sea-breeze note; the three months' rest after blending rounds the edges without burying them.
Caccia al Piano's limited-edition Bolgheri Bianco is made, in the estate's own words, for immediate pleasure without giving up ageing potential; drink the 2023 through 2027. Vivino drinkers rate it 4.1 across nearly 400 ratings, unusually consistent for a coastal Tuscan white in this price band.
Two UK merchants currently list the 2023, both above £40, while Italian retail sits near 28 euros; £2.67 of still-wine duty and 20% VAT account for much of that gap before freight.
The scores weigh the 2023's fresh structure, the £41.82 to £45 UK price band and Bolgheri DOC prestige; the value dimension is judged editorially because UK price aggregates for this label are still thin.
Preserved 2023 acidity, saline wet-stone minerality and the wood-given mid-weight span seafood, fried fish, fresh cheeses and herb dishes; only fierce chilli heat is off the table.
A limited-edition white from Bolgheri, the DOC of Sassicaia country, with a 91-point Falstaff rating on the 2021 and ceramic-amphora ageing to talk about at the table; priced for occasions.
An approachable, fruit-forward 12% white with no hard edges, but a £40-plus limited-edition Bolgheri Bianco is an ambitious first Vermentino; a better second step than starting point.
Editorial derivation, price_aggregate is empty for this label: £41.82 to £45 in the UK versus about 28 euros at Italian retail is a stiff import premium, softened by Falstaff's 91 points for the 2021 and a 4.1 Vivino average.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Bolgheri denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
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Caccia al Piano's tech sheet describes a mild winter, a wet late spring and a hot summer broken by three rain events; a dry, sunny September stretched the cycle, so the 2023 kept its acidity with fully ripe skins.
A mild winter and a rain-marked late spring ran into a hot summer at Castagneto Carducci, then September and early October turned dry and sunny. The stretched cycle let the Vermentino and Sauvignon Blanc ripen slowly, holding good acidity with fully ripe skins; drink through 2027.
A mild winter and a rain-marked late spring ran into a hot summer at Castagneto Carducci, then September and early October turned dry and sunny. The stretched cycle let the Vermentino and Sauvignon Blanc ripen slowly, holding good acidity with fully ripe skins; 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.
Bolgheri built its name on Cabernet and Merlot, but the DOC's whites lean on Vermentino grown on sandy soils a few kilometres from the Tyrrhenian; Lungocosta blends it 70/30 with Sauvignon Blanc under the same appellation.
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.
Bolgheri 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.
Bolgheri falls within Tuscany , covering Castagneto Carducci · Livorno · Toscana.
Caccia al Piano matures the two varieties separately for 9 months in 10 hl casks, tonneaux, barriques and amphorae, then 3 more assembled before a spring release; vessel-heavy elevage for a white ties up cellar space and capital.
The tech sheet specifies hand-picking Vermentino and Sauvignon Blanc at different times into small 15 kg crates, doubling passes through the vines; manual labour on a Castagneto Carducci estate is priced into every bottle.
Bolgheri's reputation rides on Sassicaia-led reds, and Via Bolgherese addresses carry that premium onto whites too; the producer markets Lungocosta explicitly as a limited edition, which keeps volumes and discounting low.
HMRC still-wine duty adds £2.67 a bottle at or below 15% ABV, and the 20% VAT inside the £41.82 Great Wines Direct price is £6.97: roughly £9.64 of tax before retailer margin on the cheapest live UK listing.
Caccia al Piano belongs to the Ziliani family's Berlucchi group, so it shares distribution and cellar-technology overheads a standalone Bolgheri grower would carry alone; Italian retail lists the 2023 near 28 euros.
Dishes that complement this wine
Lungocosta's preserved 2023 acidity and wet-stone salinity suit coastal Italian cooking: think fregula with mixed seafood or Sicilian-style swordfish rather than heavily spiced plates.
The 2023 kept bright acidity through a slow, dry autumn at Castagneto Carducci, and the wet-stone salinity in its profile mirrors briny shellfish stock. That cut-and-echo lets seafood fregula or squid ink risotto taste fresher instead of sitting heavy.
Try with: Fregula ai frutti di mare · Squid ink risotto · Impepata di cozze · More pairings →
Whipped salt cod and battered fish coat the palate in fat. Lungocosta's Vermentino spine, fermented cool at 15C, scrubs that richness away, while the subtle creaminess Falstaff noted matches the texture rather than fighting it.
Try with: Baccala Mantecato · Fish and Chips · Baccala alla cosentina · More pairings →
A year in casks, tonneaux and amphorae gives this Bolgheri Bianco a mid-palate weight most Vermentino never gets: enough to stand up to grilled swordfish or vitello tonnato without a red's tannin getting in the way.
Try with: Pesce spada alla Siciliana · Vitello Tonnato · Polpo alla pignata · More pairings →
The 30% Sauvignon Blanc brings grassy, Mediterranean-scrub aromatics that pick up basil, raw tomato and young milky cheeses. Vivino's food tags for this wine lean vegetarian for exactly this reason.
Try with: Insalata Caprese · Trofie al pesto · Torta pasqualina · More pairings →
Salt in pecorino, focaccia or oysters amplifies fruit and softens acid bite. Against the saline, sea-breeze minerality of Bolgheri's sandy soils the exchange runs both ways, each side tasting fresher for it.
Try with: Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Focaccia Genovese · Oysters · More pairings →
Capsaicin heat flattens the delicate flower-and-scrub aromatics and makes even 12% alcohol read hot, while desserts sweeter than the wine strip its fruit to a thin, bitter shell. Keep it away from vindaloo-grade spice and pastry-sweet plates.
Skip with: Lamb vindaloo · Sweet and sour prawns · Pastiera napoletana · Pairing guide →
Caccia al Piano positions this white for immediate pleasure with genuine ageing potential; the wood-and-amphora year gives it the frame to hold to around 2027, though it is not a long-haul collector bottle.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Caccia al Piano claims genuine ageing potential and the amphora-and-wood year supports 3 to 4 years, but as a DOC white with no mandated ageing this is a short-hold bottle: drink by 2027.
£41.82 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom 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 · MediumThe 2023 is 70% Vermentino and 30% Sauvignon Blanc, per Caccia al Piano's own technical sheet. The varieties are hand-picked separately into 15 kg crates: the Vermentino is pressed as whole clusters, while the Sauvignon Blanc is de-stemmed and cryo-macerated before both ferment at 15C.
Each variety matures separately for nine months in small 10 hl casks, tonneaux, barriques and ceramic amphorae. After blending, the finished Bolgheri Bianco rests a further three months in the same vessels and is released in the spring.
Drink it now through 2027. Caccia al Piano positions Lungocosta for immediate pleasure without giving up ageing potential, and the 2023's slow, dry autumn ripening locked in the acidity that carries a white through short-term cellaring.
Coastal Italian cooking: seafood fregula, Sicilian-style swordfish or creamed baccala. Its wet-stone salinity and fresh acidity also flatter Caprese salad and young pecorino, the same direction the Italian retailer notes and Vivino food tags point in.
Current UK listings run from £41.82 at Great Wines Direct to £45 at The Great Wine Co., against roughly 28 to 33 euros at Italian retail. UK still-wine duty of £2.67 a bottle plus 20% VAT explains most of that gap before freight and margin.
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