DOC Rose

Novità Pinot Grigio Blush delle Venezie

Novita

Grape
Pinot Grigio
Denomination
Delle Venezie DOC
Region
Veneto
ABV
11%
Body
Light to medium
Drink
Now–2027

A pale-pink, off-dry Pinot Grigio Blush from the delle Venezie DOC, made for the Novità label by Cevico winemaker Enrico Salvatori. Ripe cherry and strawberry with a twist of grapefruit, light at 11%. Screwcap, vegan-friendly and built for summer.

Best price
£11.63

2025 · 75cl · checked 13 Sep

Vintages 2025 2024

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Where to buy Novità Pinot Grigio Blush

£11.63 best price · 1 retailer in stock · checked 13 Sep 2026

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Great Wines Direct Best price 2025 · 75cl · checked 13 Sep
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£11.63 £15.51/L
Great Wines Direct Best price 2024 · 75cl · checked 10 Sep
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£11.63 £15.51/L

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Tasting Notes

What Novità Pinot Grigio Blush tastes like

Drawn from the Great Wines Direct and Strictly Wine sheets for this wine: cherry and strawberry from ten hours on the skins, then rose petal, grapefruit and a stony hint.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial (style guidance)
Tasted on
27 August 2026
Vintage in glass
2025
Source
Style guidance · confidence Medium
Taste profile
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Ripe cherry and strawberry lead, the two fruits on Great Wines Direct's card for this wine. Behind them sit the rose petal and grapefruit zest its merchant sheet describes, with a faint stony edge. The pink colour and the red-fruit register both come from ten hours on Pinot Grigio's coppery skins.

GrapefruitGrapefruit
Rose petalRose petal
CherryCherry
StrawberryStrawberry
FlintFlint
Palate

Light and gently off-dry: the merchant scale places it at 3, so there is a clear soft sweetness before the citrus freshness shows up. At 11% it stays easy and quenching rather than rich. Cool fermentation in steel at 18 to 19 degrees keeps everything about fresh fruit.

Finish

Short and clean, closing on grapefruit zest and a whisper of that stony note rather than sugar.

Overall

An easy, softly sweet summer rosato from the Novità range Cevico makes with winemaker Enrico Salvatori. Vivino drinkers rate the label around 3.5: pleasant rather than profound, which at this price is the brief. Serve it very cold, as the aperitif style it is.

Drink now Best by 2027
Live UK pricing

Buying the Blush: two vintages in stock

Great Wines Direct lists both the 2024 and the 2025 at £11.63 under screwcap; the label is also listed by UK independents such as Strictly Wine.

Best price · 75 cl £11.63 at Great Wines Direct
Price spread £11.63 Across 1 UK retailer tracked
Retailers tracked 1UK 2 in stock
Vintages live 2025 · 2024 Current release: 2025
Per-litre (75 cl basis) £15.51 Per-litre price for the lowest current offer
Last checked 13 Sep 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

How the Blush scores as a buy

Scored on its £11.63 price, 11% strength, screwcap convenience and its place as the pink, off-dry corner of the Novità range.

Best intro to this style 9.2/10

Off-dry, pale pink, light at 11% and under a screwcap: about as approachable as Italian wine gets.

Best everyday bottle 8.8/10

Low alcohol, a screwcap and an £11-12 price make it an easy weeknight and picnic pour.

Best with food 7.2/10

Made for the lighter half of the table: salads, fried seafood, mild spice and the aperitif hour. Rich mains and strong cheese defeat it.

Best value 6.5/10

£11.63 buys a branded, screwcap DOC rosato that drinkers rate around 3.5 on Vivino: fair summer value rather than a bargain.

Best for an occasion 3.0/10

A picnic and barbecue wine, not a statement one; for a celebratory pink, step up to a Franciacorta rosé.

Best for cellar 1.0/10

Tank-made, screwcapped and rested only briefly before bottling; it is built to be drunk in the year you buy it.

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

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Delle Venezie in five fields

A compact view of what the Delle Venezie 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: Pinot Grigio.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Friuli Venezia Giulia · Trentino-Alto Adige · Veneto
Style
DOC · Delle Venezie
Classification
DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata)
Vintages

2024 and 2025: drink the year fresh

Both listed vintages carry the same 11% strength, and the style is bottled young from tank. Reach for the newest year you can find.

2025 Current release
Lowest price
£11.63
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
11.0%
Window
Drink now through 2027

The current release. It rested briefly in tank to keep the fruit pure, per the merchant sheet, and is bottled under screwcap for drinking young and cold.

2024 Previous release
Lowest price
£11.63
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
11.0%
Window
Drink now 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

Delle Venezie DOC: Pinot Grigio country

The delle Venezie DOC is north-east Italy's Pinot Grigio zone, spanning the flat, Adriatic-cooled plains its merchant sheet describes. The vines are around ten years old, trained low on wires and farmed for freshness.

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.

Delle Venezie 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. Varieties not yet recorded
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
03

Region and area context

Delle Venezie falls within Friuli Venezia Giulia, covering Friuli Venezia Giulia · Trentino-Alto Adige · Veneto.

Wine appellations of Veneto
04

Reading the label

  • NovitaProducer / brand
  • Pinot GrigioGrape varieties
  • Delle Venezie DOCGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2025Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 11.0% vol · 75 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
05

What sits behind the price of Novità Pinot Grigio Blush

Tracked from
£11.63
Direction
Mostly cost down
Drivers
2 up / 3 down
Main factor
UK duty and VAT on an 11% bottle
  1. 01

    UK duty and VAT on an 11% bottle

    Cost up

    Duty at 2026 rates comes to about £2.53 at 11%, and VAT inside the £11.63 price adds £1.94: roughly £4.47, nearly four pounds in ten, is tax.

  2. 02

    Co-operative scale behind the label

    Cost down

    Novità is made by Cevico, a co-operative group its merchant sheet credits with more than 6,700 hectares; grapes at that scale cost far less than estate fruit.

  3. 03

    Flat, fertile delle Venezie vineyards

    Cost down

    The sheet describes flat, fertile plains with wire-trained vines averaging ten years old: easy country to farm compared with terraced hillside DOCG land.

  4. 04

    Tank wine under screwcap

    Cost down

    No oak, a short rest in tank and a screwcap closure keep cellar and packaging costs at the minimum for the category.

  5. 05

    Ten hours of skin contact

    Cost up

    The blush colour needs a deliberate maceration step and cool, temperature-controlled fermentation at 18 to 19 degrees, one more process than a plain white Pinot Grigio.

01

UK duty and VAT on an 11% bottle

Cost up

Duty at 2026 rates comes to about £2.53 at 11%, and VAT inside the £11.63 price adds £1.94: roughly £4.47, nearly four pounds in ten, is tax.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Food Pairing

Aperitifs, salads and gentle spice: where it fits

Its own card says chilled as an aperitif or with light dishes. The rows below add the structural logic: soft sweetness against sweet-sour and mild heat, freshness against oil and cream.

Sweet balance Strong match

Sweet-and-sour dishes and mild spice

Its own soft sweetness sits level with sweet-and-sour sauces, and the low 11% alcohol keeps mild chilli heat from flaring. This is where an off-dry blush beats a bone-dry rosé.

Try with: Sweet and sour prawns · Salt and pepper prawns · mild Thai noodle salad · More pairings →

Fat cutting Good match

Fried seafood and light batter

Grapefruit-zest freshness scrubs frying oil from the palate, and the wine's light body never sits heavier than the food.

Try with: Prawn Tempura · calamari · fish goujons · More pairings →

Acidity matching Good match

Summer salads and soft cheeses

Fresh acidity lifts creamy mozzarella and tomato, and the strawberry register echoes a salad's sweeter notes.

Try with: Insalata Caprese · goat's cheese salad · panzanella · More pairings →

Body matching Good match

The aperitif hour

Great Wines Direct's own card says it plainly: chilled as an aperitif or with light dishes. At 11% it opens an evening without shortening it.

Try with: marinated olives · crisps and dips · prosciutto e melone

Avoid Clash

Big, rich mains and strong cheese

A light off-dry blush disappears next to steak, ragù or blue cheese. For those plates pour a proper red instead, a medium-bodied Chianti, and keep this bottle for the sunshine slots.

Skip with: Ribeye steak · Ragu alla bolognese · Blue cheese · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Nothing to cellar: drink it cold and young

Tank-made, screwcapped and rested only briefly before bottling, this blush is about fruit purity, not development. Buy for the season, not the cellar.

Drinking window
2026 → 2027

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

Decanting
no

A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.

Cellar potential
Low

Tank-made, screwcapped and rested only briefly before bottling; it is built to be drunk in the year you buy it.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£11.63 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

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Prices & stock

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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

Related grapes, places and pairings

Denomination
Delle Venezie DOC

Common Questions

Novità is a brand made by Cevico, the large wine co-operative group from Emilia-Romagna, with Enrico Salvatori as winemaker; its merchant sheet credits the group with over 6,700 hectares of vines. It is a multi-region range rather than a single estate, and this blush comes from the delle Venezie DOC zone.

Off-dry. Strictly Wine's spec sheet places it at 3 on the dryness scale: a clear soft sweetness up front, then fresh citrus. It is sweeter than a Provence-style rosé but nowhere near a dessert wine.

Pinot Grigio grapes have coppery-pink skins. This wine spends about ten hours on those skins before pressing, per the merchant sheet, which tints it pale pink and adds the red-fruit notes. Cool steel fermentation then keeps it fresh.

Ripe cherries and strawberries, with rose petal, grapefruit zest and a hint of minerality on the merchant cards. Light-bodied, gently sweet and fresh at 11%.

Chilled as an aperitif or with light dishes, says its own card. Its soft sweetness also suits sweet-and-sour and mildly spiced plates, fried seafood and summer salads.

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Novità Pinot Grigio Blush