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Pasqua's everyday Puglia red is 100% Sangiovese from Italy's warm south, aged six months in steel and never oak. Expect ripe cherry and blackberry, soft tannin and a rounded, juicy finish. A midweek bottle for ragu, lasagne or grilled lamb.
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Il Carretto spends six months in steel, not oak, so the fruit arrives clean. What follows draws on Pasqua's own tasting sheet and on the 466 Vivino reviews that built its taste profile.
Ripe cherry leads, with the darker edge of blackberry behind it. Pasqua presses the skins gently, so the wine takes colour and fruit without the bitter grip hard pressing brings. Corney & Barrow's buyers pick up a herbal lift over the fruit. There is no oak smell here, because there is no oak.
Blackberry
Cherry
Plum
Strawberry
Black pepper
LiquoriceThe tannin is low and rounded, with none of the Tuscan bite Sangiovese can have. Pasqua leaves a little sugar in, about six grams a litre, and that is why it tastes softer than a dry red usually does. Red cherry runs into plum and blackberry. There is still enough acidity to stop it feeling heavy, which matters in a place this hot.
Pasqua describes the finish as velvety and long, and drinkers back the velvet: soft, warm and clean. Nothing grips or dries your mouth on the way out.
Vivino's crowd puts it at 3.6 out of 5 across 5,357 ratings. That is the honest score for a wine built to be poured, not studied. Drink it in the next two years, next to a ragu. Some reviewers there describe oak, but Pasqua uses steel only, so what they taste is ripe fruit.
Pasqua makes these Puglian wines to a UK merchant's brief, so the same wine turns up on more than one shop's own list. Expect one narrow price band near 10 pounds, not the spread a famous name attracts.
The scores below judge Il Carretto against what it sets out to be: an easy midweek red rather than a cellar bottle.
Around 10 pounds, screwcap, 12% alcohol and no need to decant: this is a bottle built for a Tuesday.
Soft tannin, ripe fruit and a hint of sweetness make it an easy first Italian red, though it shows southern Sangiovese rather than the sharper Tuscan style.
Low tannin and steady acidity make it easy next to tomato sauces and grilled meat, though the trace of sweetness limits it against bitter greens.
At around 10 pounds it sits mid-band for a Puglia IGT red, and its 3.6 drinker average is ordinary, so it earns its price rather than beating it.
A merchant-label Puglia IGT at around 10 pounds carries no prestige signal, so it pours well at a family dinner but not at a celebration.
Puglia IGT sets no ageing rule, and six months in steel at 12% alcohol with soft tannin leaves nothing to build on.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Puglia denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Puglia's 2024 was hot and short of rain. Growers irrigated to keep the vines moving and picked about two weeks earlier than 2023. Dry heat kept mildew away, so the fruit came in clean.
Puglia's 2024 was hot and short of rain, so growers irrigated and picked about two weeks earlier than 2023. The dry heat kept mildew away and the fruit came in clean. Expect ripe, soft flavours rather than a tense year.
Puglia's 2024 was hot and short of rain, so growers irrigated and picked about two weeks earlier than 2023. The dry heat kept mildew away and the fruit came in clean. Expect ripe, soft flavours rather than a tense year.
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.
Puglia IGT covers six provinces, from Foggia down to Lecce, and lists Sangiovese among its permitted grapes. It lets growers crop 26 tonnes a hectare, more than three times the Chianti Classico limit.
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.
Puglia 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.
Puglia falls within Puglia, covering Bari · Barletta-Andria-Trani · Brindisi · Foggia · Lecce · Taranto.
Winery
Verona
Wine area
Made at Pasqua Vigneti e Cantine, Verona. Directions
The Puglia IGT rules cap the crop at 26 tonnes a hectare, more than three times the 7.5 tonnes Chianti Classico allows. More fruit per row is the single biggest reason this Sangiovese lands near 10 pounds.
Pasqua's own sheet puts the wine in steel for six months. There is no barrel to buy, no cellar time beyond half a year, and the bottle is on sale within a year of picking.
Jeroboams says Pasqua produces these Puglian wines especially for them, and Corney & Barrow sells Il Carretto as its own exclusive. A wine made to a merchant's brief skips the brand marketing a named cuvee has to pay for.
A still wine at 12% pays about 2.67 pounds of duty a bottle at 2026 rates, and VAT takes another 1.71 pounds of the 10.25 asked. Over 4 pounds of the shelf price never reaches the wine.
The fruit comes from the plains of Italy's far south. Growers there work by machine, and 2024's dry, disease-free summer meant less spraying than a damp northern year needs.
Pasqua bottles near Verona and ships to UK merchants. Corney & Barrow only drops its delivery charge above 150 pounds, which is about 15 bottles of Il Carretto.
Dishes that go with this wine
Pasqua points the wine at rich pasta, grilled swordfish and grilled red meat. Vivino drinkers reach for beef, lamb and pasta on their own, which is the same answer arriving from the other end.
Tomato brings sharp acidity, and a wine with less acidity than the plate tastes flat beside it. Il Carretto holds enough to sit level with a long-cooked sauce. Its tannin is too low to turn metallic against the tomato, which is what happens with a firmer red.
Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · Lasagna · Pizza Margherita · Pasta arrabbiata · More pairings →
Pasqua sends this wine at grilled red meat, and the reason is fat. Charred fat coats your tongue, and the wine's acidity clears it between bites. Vivino drinkers land on beef and lamb on their own, without being told.
Try with: Lamb chops · Ribeye steak · Rack of lamb · Sirloin steak · More pairings →
A red with fish sounds wrong until you meet swordfish. It is dense and meaty, and the char off the grill answers the wine's ripe dark fruit. Serve the bottle at 16C, as Pasqua asks, so it stays fresh against the plate.
Try with: Pesce spada alla Siciliana · Pasta alla Norma · Sfincione, Sicilian Pizza · More pairings →
Salt makes fruit taste sweeter and tannin taste softer. On a wine already soft and a touch sweet, that turns a cheese and bread plate into easy drinking. Puglia's own oily, salty focaccia is the closest thing to a home match.
Try with: Focaccia Barese · Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Frittata di maccheroni · More pairings →
At 12% alcohol this is a light red, so it needs meat that is rich but not heavy. Roast pork sits exactly there. The wine's ripe fruit picks up the herbs and fennel in a porchetta without fighting them.
Try with: Porchetta · Roast pork · Pulled pork · More pairings →
The sugar left in this wine turns hard against bitterness, so Puglia's own orecchiette with cime di rapa is the local dish it fights. Raw shellfish is the other miss, because soft red fruit makes oysters taste tinny. Pour a crisp dry white instead, such as Verdeca or Fiano.
Skip with: Orecchiette con cime di rapa · Apulian Orecchiette with Broccoli Rabe · Oysters · Sashimi · Nigiri Sushi · Pairing guide →
Six months in steel and 12% alcohol build a wine for the next two years. Pasqua's cellaring bottles are its Amarone and its Valpolicella Ripasso, not this one.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Puglia IGT sets no ageing rule, and six months in steel at 12% alcohol with soft tannin leaves nothing to build on.
£10.25 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 · MediumIt is 100% Sangiovese. Pasqua's own technical sheet lists no other grape, even though one UK merchant labels it a Sangiovese blend. The grape is better known in Tuscany, but it ripens softer and rounder in Puglia's heat.
No. Pasqua ages it six months in steel tanks, so no barrel flavour reaches the glass. Some drinkers still write about oak and vanilla, and what they are picking up is very ripe fruit and a little leftover sugar.
Ripe cherry and blackberry, soft tannin and a rounded finish. Pasqua leaves about six grams of sugar a litre in the wine, so it tastes softer than most dry reds. At 12% alcohol it is lighter than the Primitivo Puglia is famous for.
Tomato-led pasta, pizza and grilled red meat. Pasqua also points it at grilled swordfish, which works because the fish is dense and the char meets the wine's dark fruit. Skip bitter greens such as cime di rapa, which turn hard against the wine's sweetness.
Drink it by about 2027. The 2024 was picked in a hot, dry Puglian summer and bottled after six months in steel, so it is made to be poured young. Nothing in it is built to improve in a cellar.
Corney & Barrow and Hic! Wines both list the 2024, sold by the bottle or by the six. The price table on this page shows what each shop is asking today.
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