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San Giovenale Habemus Etichetta Bianca Lazio IGT

San Giovenale

Grapes
Cannonau, Syrah, Carignano, Malvasia Nera
Denomination
Lazio IGT
Region
Lazio
ABV
15%

San Giovenale's first wine, from bush vines at Blera, an hour from Rome. Grenache, Syrah, Carignan and Malvasia Nera, aged 20 months in new French oak. Big and dark at 15%, with cocoa and tobacco. The estate made 9,000 bottles of the 2023.

Price
£66.70

2024 · 75cl · checked 27 Oct · Delivery charged at checkout

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Tasting Notes

What San Giovenale's Habemus Etichetta Bianca tastes like

Oak, chocolate and tobacco first, then blackberry and plum. The 2023 is powerful and rich, with freshness to balance it. San Giovenale ages it for 20 months in new small French oak barrels, then six months in bottle.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial
Tasted on
29 September 2026
Vintage in glass
2023
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Typical of Cannonau
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Oak, chocolate and tobacco come first, then blackberry and plum, then leather and smoke. On the 2023 there is cocoa, cinnamon, black pepper and liquorice too. Twenty months in new French oak put the chocolate and tobacco there.

Black cherryBlack cherry
BlackberryBlackberry
PlumPlum
TobaccoTobacco
LeatherLeather
OakOak
Black pepperBlack pepper
LiquoriceLiquorice
ChocolateChocolate
Palate

Powerful, full-bodied and rich, with freshness to balance the weight. The fruit comes from low bush vines on stony clay at Blera, where winds off the Tyrrhenian Sea keep the air dry. San Giovenale keeps the crop to about 2.5 tonnes of grapes a hectare, a yield the estate calls extremely low.

Finish

Very long, with firm tannins balanced by a touch of acidity. The wine spends 20 months in new small French oak barrels and six more in bottle before release.

Overall

A big 15% red for a special dinner, and San Giovenale's largest Habemus: 9,000 bottles against 600 to 1,000 for each single-grape label. Drinkers like it, year after year, with no weak vintage from 2010 to 2023.

Drink now
Live UK pricing

Buying San Giovenale Habemus Etichetta Bianca in the UK

Both 8wines and xtrawine carry the 2023, and neither has it in stock right now. San Giovenale made only 9,000 bottles of this vintage.

Best price · 75 cl · 2024 £66.70 at 8wines
75cl · 2024 available from 8wines £66.70, in stock
Vintages live 2024 Current release: 2024
Per-litre (75cl · 2024 basis) £88.93 Lowest current 75cl · 2024 offer
Last checked 27 Oct 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

Where Habemus Etichetta Bianca scores best

Strongest for an occasion and with food. It is a wine for important occasions, and it needs roast lamb, stews or game to match its weight.

Best for an occasion 9.0/10

A wine for important occasions, and one drinkers like, year after year.

Best with food 8.6/10

A full-bodied 15% red that needs food with weight, such as roast lamb, beef or veal stews, game and aged cheese.

Best for cellar 8.0/10

The 2023 spent 26 months at the estate before release, and DoctorWine's 2023 article on every vintage from 2010 to 2020 found remarkable consistency.

Best value 5.5/10

Dearer than almost every other Lazio IGT wine on this site when in stock, but it is a 9,000-bottle wine that drinkers like, year after year.

Best intro to this style 4.0/10

A powerful, oaky 15% red, almost a wine for meditation, so it is a big first step rather than an easy one.

Best everyday bottle 1.8/10

At 15% alcohol and with only 9,000 bottles made, this is a wine for a long dinner, not a weeknight.

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: Cannonau, Syrah, Carignano, Malvasia Nera.
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

The 2023: 15% alcohol and 9,000 bottles

The 2023 is the vintage both UK shops carry. San Giovenale's sheet gives it 15% alcohol from about 2.5 tonnes of grapes a hectare, picked by hand in September. Drinkers like the 2023 as much as the vintages before it.

2024 Current release
Best price
£66.70
Retailers
1 in stock
2023 Sold through
Best price
not listed
Retailers
0 in stock
ABV
15.0%
2024 Current release
Best price
£66.70
Retailers
1 in stock

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 IGT, and what San Giovenale does on top

Lazio IGT covers wine from all five provinces of the region: Frosinone, Latina, Rieti, Rome and Viterbo. Habemus comes from Blera, in Viterbo province. San Giovenale farms organically, picks by hand and ages the wine 26 months before release.

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.

Wine appellations of Lazio

Made at San Giovenale, Blera.

04

Reading the label

  • San GiovenaleProducer / estate
  • Cannonau · Syrah · Carignano · Malvasia NeraGrape varieties
  • Lazio IGTGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2024Vintage (year of harvest)
05

What sits behind the price of San Giovenale Habemus Etichetta Bianca

Tracked from
£66.70
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
5 up / 0 down
Main factor
Very low yields from bush vines
  1. 01

    Very low yields from bush vines

    Cost up

    San Giovenale's sheet gives about 2.5 tonnes of grapes a hectare from low bush vines on stony clay at Blera. The estate calls its yields extremely low. Fewer grapes a hectare means fewer bottles to carry the cost of the land.

  2. 02

    20 months in new small French oak barrels, then 6 in bottle

    Cost up

    The wine ages 20 months in small French oak barrels used for the first time, then six months in bottle. That is over two years in the cellar before a bottle is sold.

  3. 03

    A small run of 9,000 bottles

    Cost up

    San Giovenale's sheet puts the 2023 at 9,000 bottles. The single-grape Habemus labels are smaller still, at 600 to 1,000 bottles each.

  4. 04

    Picked by hand, each variety kept apart

    Cost up

    Pickers harvest by hand into crates and keep each grape variety apart, says the estate's sheet. The bunches are destemmed within an hour of picking.

  5. 05

    UK duty on a 15% wine

    Cost up

    UK duty on a 75 cl bottle at 15% alcohol is £3.44. That duty and 20% VAT are both already inside a UK shop's price.

01

Very low yields from bush vines

Cost up

San Giovenale's sheet gives about 2.5 tonnes of grapes a hectare from low bush vines on stony clay at Blera. The estate calls its yields extremely low. Fewer grapes a hectare means fewer bottles to carry the cost of the land.

Food Pairing

Food for a 15% Habemus: lamb, stews, game and cheese

Roast and grilled meat, red meat stews, game and aged or blue cheeses; beef and veal above all, though poultry and pasta work too. At 15% and full-bodied, this wine wants a dish with real weight.

Tannin softening Strong match

Roast lamb

The fat and protein in roast lamb soften the firm tannin. The pepper and dark fruit of this full-bodied Lazio red sit well beside the meat's rich flavour. Roast and grilled meat come first among the matches for this Habemus.

Try with: Leg of lamb · Rack of lamb · Lamb chops · Agnello Ragu Lucano · More pairings →

Body matching Strong match

Slow-cooked red meat

A 15% red this full needs a dish with the same weight, or it will swamp the food. Long-braised beef, veal or mutton has that weight. Beef and veal are the classic partners for this Habemus, and a red meat stew is the surest of them.

Try with: Brasato al Barolo · Ossobuco alla Milanese · Spezzatino di pecora · Beef stew · More pairings →

Aromatic bridge Good match

Game and duck

Game has a dark, savoury depth that meets the leather, smoke and pepper in this wine. Game sits among the natural matches for the Etichetta Bianca, a big Lazio red. Venison and roast duck both work.

Try with: Venison Stew · Roast Duck · Duck breast

Salt balance Good match

Aged and blue cheeses

Salt in an aged or blue cheese softens the oak and tannin of a big red and brings its fruit forward. Both blue and aged cheeses suit this Habemus. Pick a firm, mature cheese over a fresh, mild one.

Try with: Blue cheese · Cheese board · Pecorino sardo e pan carasau

Fat cutting Good match

Fatty roast pork and steak

Firm tannin and a touch of acidity clean the palate after each bite of fatty meat. Porchetta and a well-marbled steak both suit this dry, full-bodied Lazio red.

Try with: Porchetta · Ribeye steak · Fiorentina steak · Sirloin steak

Avoid Clash

Hot, chilli-heavy dishes

Chilli heat and high alcohol feed each other. At 15%, this Habemus will taste hot and bitter next to a fiery curry, and its oak will clash with the spice.

Skip with: Jungle Curry · Red Curry · Pasta arrabbiata · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

How Habemus Etichetta Bianca holds up over the years

DoctorWine tasted all eleven vintages from 2010 to 2020 side by side for a 2023 article and praised their remarkable consistency. Drinkers agree: no weak vintage from 2010 to 2023. The 2023 spent 26 months at the estate before release.

Decanting
30 minutes

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

Serving temperature
16-18°C

Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.

Cellar potential
High

The 2023 spent 26 months at the estate before release, and DoctorWine's 2023 article on every vintage from 2010 to 2020 found remarkable consistency.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£66.70 for a 75cl bottle of the 2024, at 8wines, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources for this Habemus Etichetta Bianca page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 27 Oct 2026, 02:05 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 4.4 out of 5 from 4,143 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

San Giovenale, Habemus and Lazio IGT: the connected pages

Producer
San Giovenale Lazio
Grapes
Cannonau Syrah Carignano Malvasia Nera
Denomination
Lazio IGT
Region
Lazio Region guide

Common Questions

No, it is a red wine. Etichetta Bianca means 'white label', and at San Giovenale the label colour names the wine, not its colour. The white label is the blend of four grapes. The Rossa is pure Cabernet Franc and the Nera pure Syrah, while the Oro is the estate's white.

Grenache, Syrah, Carignan and Malvasia Nera, on San Giovenale's own sheet for the 2023. Grenache is the grape Sardinia calls Cannonau, and Carignan is Carignano in Italian. Several shops still list Tempranillo in place of Malvasia Nera, but the estate's current sheet does not. Malvasia Nera joined the blend with the 2015 vintage. The grapes grow on low bush vines on stony clay at Blera, 300 to 400 metres up.

Dark, oaky and powerful. Oak, chocolate and tobacco come first, then blackberry and plum, then leather and smoke. The 2023 is powerful, full-bodied and rich, with freshness to balance it and a very long finish. It is 15% alcohol.

Roast lamb, beef or veal stews, game and aged cheeses. Roast and grilled meat, red meat stews, game and blue or aged cheeses all have the weight it needs. Pour it into a decanter an hour before serving.

San Giovenale, a certified organic estate at Blera in northern Lazio, about an hour from Rome. Emanuele Pangrazi founded it in 2006, and Habemus was its first wine. Marco Casolanetti oversees the wine, and he also owns Oasi degli Angeli.

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