Planeta's entry white from Menfi blends Grecanico with Chardonnay and Grillo into a fresh, dry Sicilia DOC. Expect white peach, Sicilian citrus and a saline lift from organic, SOStain-farmed vineyards. An easy, food-friendly bottle that drinks well y
Planeta's own notes and the Vivino crowd agree on the shape of this wine: white peach, apricot and Sicilian citrus over a saline, lightly honeyed core, with fresh acidity from organically farmed Menfi fruit.
The nose leads with white peach and not-too-ripe apricot, the aromatic signature Planeta lists for this bottling, lifted by Sicilian citrus and white melon. Vivino's drinkers echo that fruit, the largest share of their notes pointing to peach, apple and lemon. A faint chestnut honey and freshly cut hay sit underneath.
Lemon
Apricot
Melon
Pineapple
White peach
Flint
Hay
HoneyFermented cool in stainless steel at around 15 degrees and held a few months before bottling, it stays bright and unoaked on the palate. Fresh acidity carries citrus and orchard fruit across a slim, balanced body of about 12.5% alcohol. The Grecanico-led blend, grown on the limey, chalk-influenced soils of Menfi, gives a clear saline thread that returns on the mid-palate.
The finish is clean and citrus-fresh rather than long, closing on the saline, stony note that the Vivino crowd files under minerality. It leaves the mouth refreshed rather than weighty.
This is Planeta's entry white, the everyday counterpart to its single-vineyard Menfi bottlings, and it plays that role well: a reliable, food-flexible Sicilian white that Vivino's 14,000-plus drinkers rate a steady 3.6 and that has earned 91-point critic nods from James Suckling and Wine Enthusiast in stronger vintages. Drink it young and cold.
A benchmark Sicilian everyday white, usually 14 to 17 pounds across UK merchants. The 2024 and 2025 vintages are the ones in the market now, both organic, SOStain-certified bottlings from Planeta.
A quick read on where this Sicilia DOC white earns its keep: strong on everyday value and food versatility from its fresh acidity, modest on cellar potential because it is built to drink young.
Low price, fresh, food-flexible and widely stocked: a textbook midweek Sicilian white.
An approachable, dry, fruit-forward expression of indigenous Grecanico, an easy first step into Sicilian white blends.
Bright acidity and salinity make it a flexible seafood and antipasti white, though it lacks the weight for rich, meaty dishes.
A benchmark-producer Sicilian DOC organic white with a live floor near 13.86 pounds is strong everyday value (category p50 data unavailable).
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our editorial methodology.
A compact view of what the Sicilia denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
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La Segreta Bianco is made for early drinking, so vintage swings matter less than freshness. Both the 2024 and 2025 are unoaked, steel-raised whites at around 12.5% alcohol, built to drink within a couple of years of harvest.
The current release, fermented cool in steel and bottled young. Bright and saline in style, the 2025 is built to drink from 2026 through 2028 rather than to cellar.
An unoaked, steel-raised Sicilian white at about 12.5%, made for early drinking. The 2024 is fresh and citrus-driven now and is best enjoyed over 2025 to 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.
Planeta is one of Sicily's defining modern estates, and La Segreta is its long-running entry white, first made in 1995. The bianco has drawn 91-point scores from James Suckling and Wine Enthusiast in recent vintages.
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.
Sicilia 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.
Sicilia falls within Sicily , covering Sicily.
Planeta owns and farms the Ulmo, Gurra and Dispensa vineyards to organic and SOStain standards, dearer than bulk Sicilian white but the base of the quality at this price.
Cool steel fermentation at about 15 degrees with no barrel ageing keeps cellar and oak costs low, one reason a named-estate Sicilian white lands near 14 to 17 pounds.
Planeta is a defining Sicilian estate, with 91-point scores from James Suckling and Wine Enthusiast on recent La Segreta whites, supporting a premium over anonymous IGT bottlings.
La Segreta is Planeta's widely distributed entry white, made in volume since 1995, so economies of scale hold the UK shelf price down near 15 pounds.
UK excise duty on a still wine at 12.5% is about 2.67 pounds a bottle before VAT, a large fixed slice of a roughly 15 pound price that has nothing to do with the wine itself.
Dishes that complement this wine
Bright acidity and a saline finish make this a seafood and antipasti wine. Vivino drinkers reach for it with shellfish and light vegetable plates, and its citrus lifts fried Sicilian classics like arancini.
Fresh acidity and a saline finish shadow briny shellfish and white fish, lifting them without adding weight. This is the wine's home turf, from peppered mussels to a seafood fregola.
Try with: Impepata di cozze · Squid ink risotto · Fregula ai frutti di mare · Pesce spada alla Siciliana · More pairings →
The citrus drive and brisk acidity scrub fat from fried, breadcrumbed bites, resetting the palate between mouthfuls. It is the classic foil for arancini and other fritto.
Try with: Arancini · Gnocco fritto · More pairings →
A slim, unoaked body sits with grilled Sicilian swordfish and herb-dressed fish without dominating them, echoing the wine's own gentle weight.
Try with: Pesce spada alla Siciliana · Squid ink risotto · More pairings →
A saline, citrus-edged white meets salty pecorino and lightly cured antipasti on equal terms, its acidity keeping the plate fresh rather than heavy.
Try with: Fresh pecorino · Prosciutto and melon · Marinated olives
White peach and Sicilian citrus aromatics bridge to lemon-dressed vegetables and herby antipasti, matching their freshness instead of fighting it.
Try with: Caponata · Grilled courgettes · Lemon-dressed fennel
At 12.5% with no oak and a delicate frame, this white is swamped by fierce chilli heat and by rich, heavily oaked or tannic dishes, which flatten its citrus and salinity.
Skip with: Vindaloo · Spicy Sichuan · Chargrilled ribeye · Pairing guide →
This is not a wine to lay down. Planeta builds La Segreta Bianco for freshness, with no oak and a slim, citrus-driven texture, so it rewards drinking in its first two to three years rather than cellaring.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
Unoaked and built for freshness with no ageing structure, so it gains nothing from the cellar.
£13.86 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 a Sicilian white blend led by Grecanico at around 40%, with Chardonnay and Grillo and a small share of other varieties. The fruit comes from Planeta's organic Ulmo, Gurra and Dispensa vineyards around Menfi and Sambuca di Sicilia.
Yes. It is a dry white with fresh acidity and about 12.5% alcohol. Drinkers and the producer both describe white peach, citrus and a light saline edge rather than any sweetness.
Its citrus and salinity suit Sicilian seafood: try it with impepata di cozze, squid ink risotto, arancini or pesce spada alla Siciliana. It also handles light vegetable antipasti and fresh cheeses.
Drink it young. This is an unoaked, freshness-driven white built for the first two to three years after the vintage, so the 2024 and 2025 bottlings are drinking well now.
Yes. Planeta farms the La Segreta vineyards to organic standards and the SOStain Sicilia sustainability protocol, and the wine is labelled as organic.
It is an everyday-priced Sicilian white, typically between about 14 and 17 pounds a bottle from UK merchants, which makes it strong value from a benchmark producer.
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