IGT White

Omina Romana Hermes Diactoros II

Ômina Romana (official)

Grapes
Viognier, Bellone, Manzoni Bianco
Denomination
Lazio IGT
Region
Lazio
ABV
12%
Drink
Now to 2029

Omina Romana's Lazio IGP white from volcanic soils at Velletri: Viognier-led with Petit Manseng and Bellone. Six months on its yeast in steel gives a creamy, salty palate under acacia honey and citrus peel. 90 Falstaff points.

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2025 · 75cl · checked 25 Oct · Delivery £8, free on 6 bottles

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Tasting Notes

Acacia honey, white pepper and salt: tasting Hermes Diactoros II

Magnolia, citrus peel and acacia honey up front, then pineapple and a delicate smoky note. Falstaff scored the 2019 at 90 points.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial
Tasted on
24 July 2026
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Typical of Viognier
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Magnolia, citrus peel, white pepper, aromatic herbs and acacia honey: the floral bouquet Omina Romana's own sheet lists, and the glass delivers it. Underneath sits riper fruit: baked peach and apricot, then pineapple, mango and a delicate smoky note. Brilliant golden yellow in the glass.

AcaciaAcacia
ApricotApricot
MangoMango
PineapplePineapple
White peachWhite peach
FlintFlint
VanillaVanilla
HoneyHoney
Palate

Enveloping, fresh and salty, with a creamy core that tastes of vanilla and butter even though no oak comes near it. Six months on its yeast in stainless steel, with the yeast stirred, build that texture. At 12% it keeps a gentle drive and a polished, slightly creamy centre, with candied peel and dry ginger through the middle.

Finish

Long and stony, closing on acacia fruit and blossom. The salty persistence is the volcanic-soil signature of the whole Velletri range.

Overall

A 90-point Falstaff white (the 2019, tasted in 2021), and a well-liked one: drinkers praise the creamy, stony balance rather than sheer fruit. It is the step-up cuvee of Omina Romana's Linea line, above the single-grape bottlings. Drink within four years of harvest while the acacia and citrus stay bright.

Drink now Best by 2029
Live UK pricing

Two vintages in UK retail from 17.34

UK merchants list the 2023 and 2025 releases between 17.34 and 20 pounds, under the 21-29 euros the same label fetches in EU shops. The estate sells the current vintage at 15.77 euros ex-cellar.

Best price · 75 cl · 2025 £17.00 at The Great Wine Co.
Price spread · 75cl · 2025 £17.00 - £17.34 Across 2 UK retailers with 75cl · 2025 in stock
Retailers · 75cl · 2025 2UK 2 in stock
Vintages live 2025 Current release: 2025
Per-litre (75cl · 2025 basis) £22.67 Lowest current 75cl · 2025 offer
Last checked 27 Oct 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

Where Hermes Diactoros II fits

The scores weigh a 17-20 pound aromatic Lazio IGP white carrying a 90-point Falstaff rating. Strong at the table, fair against its EU pricing, not built for the cellar.

Best with food 8.4/10

Aromatic white with yeast weight and salty acidity: it covers Roman pasta, roast pork, lean fish and vegetarian plates.

Best value 6.8/10

UK retail at 17.34-20 undercuts the 21-29 euro EU shelf for the same label, with a 90-point Falstaff rating attached; fair rather than cheap.

Best intro to this style 6.2/10

Soft, fruity and approachable, but Viognier-Bellone-Manzoni blends and the Lazio IGP category are unfamiliar names for a first Italian white.

Best for an occasion 5.8/10

A 90-point Falstaff score, Roman-god branding and volcanic-soil story carry a dinner table well; grand occasions still default to DOCG names.

Best everyday bottle 4.5/10

The 17.34-20 UK price and golden aromatic style make it a weekend and dinner-party white rather than a midweek default.

Best for cellar 2.5/10

Steel-raised and built on its yeast for freshness; the producer releases it ready and the drinking window runs about four years from harvest. Not a cellar piece.

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

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Lazio in five fields

A compact view of what the Lazio 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: Viognier, Bellone, Manzoni Bianco.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Frosinone · Latina · Rieti · Roma · Viterbo
Source: Disciplinare.
Style
IGT · Lazio
Classification
IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica)
What that means →
Vintages

September harvests, steel and lees

Each release is picked in the first week of September. It spends about six months in stainless steel on its yeast, then two in bottle.

2025 Current release
Best price
£17.00
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
12.0%
Window
Drink now through 2029

A young release already in UK retail about ten months after harvest. The steel-and-lees regime means it arrives ready; expect the acacia and citrus-peel top notes at their brightest through 2029.

2023 Sold through
Best price
not listed
Retailers
0 in stock
ABV
12.0%
Window
Drink now through 2027

The vintage the estate itself currently sells at 15.77 euros: picked in the first week of September per the producer's sheet, then six months in stainless steel on fine lees and two in bottle. Drinking now at its fresh, saline best.

2025 Current release
Best price
£17.00
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
12.0%
Window
Drink now through 2029

A young release already in UK retail about ten months after harvest. The steel-and-lees regime means it arrives ready; expect the acacia and citrus-peel top notes at their brightest through 2029.

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

Lazio IGP: why this blend is not a DOC

Viognier and Petit Manseng sit outside Lazio's DOC variety lists, so Omina Romana bottles this cuvee as Lazio IGP. That is a region-wide classification that leaves the blend to the estate.

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.

Lazio 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

Lazio IGT is the region-wide label, so the grapes can come from anywhere in Lazio.

The zone the estate stands in The producer

Made at Ômina Romana (official). Directions

04

Reading the label

  • Ômina Romana (official)Producer / estate
  • Viognier · Bellone · Manzoni BiancoGrape varieties
  • Lazio IGTGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2025Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 12.0% volAlcohol by volume
05

What sits behind the price of Omina Romana Hermes Diactoros II

Tracked from
£17.00
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
3 up / 2 down
Main factor
Yields held to 70 quintals per hectare
  1. 01

    Yields held to 70 quintals per hectare

    Cost up

    The vineyard runs 5,800 vines per hectare under a 70-quintal cap: barely over a kilo of fruit per vine. That concentration is priced into the bottle.

  2. 02

    Volcanic-soil estate farming at Velletri

    Cost up

    The wine's salty, stony profile comes from volcanic soils in the Castelli Romani. Estate farming south of Rome costs more than bought-in bulk Lazio fruit.

  3. 03

    Stainless steel only, no barrel programme

    Cost down

    No oak is used: six months in steel with the yeast stirred builds the creamy texture without any barrel or cellar-time spend.

  4. 04

    UK duty and VAT on a 12% still white

    Cost up

    At 12% ABV a 750 ml bottle carries about 2.57 in alcohol duty at the current 28.50-per-litre-of-alcohol rate. Add roughly 2.89-3.33 VAT inside the 17.34-20 prices: around 5.50 of what you pay.

  5. 05

    IGP classification, not DOC certification

    Cost down

    Lazio IGP lets the estate blend Viognier and Petit Manseng outside DOC variety lists and skip DOC-level certification overhead. The farming, not the classification, carries this label's cost.

01

Yields held to 70 quintals per hectare

Cost up

The vineyard runs 5,800 vines per hectare under a 70-quintal cap: barely over a kilo of fruit per vine. That concentration is priced into the bottle.

Food Pairing

From cacio e pepe to porchetta: a Velletri white at the Roman table

Pasta, lean fish and vegetarian plates are its best matches. The salty finish and yeast-built texture also make it the local answer to the Castelli Romani's roast pork.

Body matching Strong match

Lees-built texture meets Roman pasta

Six months of stirring the yeast give this white the weight to stand up to pecorino and guanciale. The white-pepper note in its bouquet echoes the dish itself, and pasta is one of its top matches.

Try with: Pasta Cacio e Pepe · Pasta alla carbonara · More pairings →

Fat cutting Strong match

Porchetta and the Castelli Romani table

Velletri sits in the Castelli Romani, porchetta country, and this is the local answer to it. Salty freshness and 12% restraint slice through herb-roasted pork fat without smothering the crackling.

Try with: Porchetta · roast pork belly · saltimbocca · More pairings →

Acidity matching Good match

Lean fish, the crowd's other pick

Lean fish is one of its best matches. Citrus-peel freshness and the long stony finish behave like a squeeze of lemon over delicately steamed or grilled white fish.

Try with: Steamed sea bass · grilled orata · More pairings →

Aromatic bridge Good match

Magnolia and herbs meet garden plates

Magnolia, aromatic herbs and acacia honey bridge naturally to fresh vegetarian plates, its single strongest food match.

Try with: Insalata Caprese · grilled summer vegetables · herb frittata · More pairings →

Salt balance Good match

Cured meats at aperitivo hour

Acacia-honey fruit against salty cured meat is a classic exchange: each rinses the other. Cured meat rounds off the list of what this white suits.

Try with: prosciutto · finocchiona · bresaola

Avoid Clash

Avoid fiery chilli and big tannic plates

Hot chilli flattens the magnolia-and-honey aromatics into alcohol burn, and rich braised red meat overpowers a 12% salty white. Keep it with pasta, pork and fish.

Skip with: vindaloo · Sichuan hotpot · barbecued short ribs · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar
Drinking window
2026 → 2029

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-raised and built on its yeast for freshness; the producer releases it ready and the drinking window runs about four years from harvest. Not a cellar piece.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£17.00 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at The Great Wine Co., is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

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Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 27 Oct 2026, 02:49 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Drawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic. Drinkers score it 4 out of 5 from 604 ratings on Vivino.

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

Viognier, Velletri and this wine's connections

Producer
Ômina Romana (official) Lazio
Grapes
Viognier Bellone Manzoni Bianco
Denomination
Lazio IGT
Region
Lazio Region guide

Common Questions

The producer's current sheet gives Viognier, Petit Manseng, Bellone and Incrocio Manzoni, with Viognier at about 60%. Earlier vintages, including the 90-point 2019, also carried Chardonnay. So the supporting cast varies by year while Viognier stays the lead.

Omina Romana, an estate at Velletri in the Castelli Romani hills south of Rome. The winery farms volcanic soils and names its cuvees after Roman and Greek divinities; Hermes, the messenger god, lends this white its name.

No. It spends about six months in stainless steel on its yeast, stirred regularly, then two months in bottle. The creamy, vanilla-custard impression comes from that yeast work, not barrels.

Brilliant golden yellow, with a bouquet of magnolia, citrus peel, white pepper, herbs and acacia honey. Falstaff's tasters add pineapple, mango and a delicate smoky fume. The palate is enveloping, fresh and salty with a long stony finish.

The Roman table first: cacio e pepe, carbonara and porchetta all sit within the wine's yeast-built weight and salty cut. Lean fish and vegetarian plates work too; avoid fiery chilli, which flattens the aromatics.

UK merchants list the 2023 and 2025 at 17.34 to 20 pounds, below the 21 to 29 euros the same label fetches in EU shops. That is not far above the estate's own 15.77-euro cellar-door price. A 90-point Falstaff rating for the line strengthens the case.

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