San Marco
A crisp, dry Frascati from San Marco, just south of Rome. Its Malvasia and Trebbiano blend shows lemon, green apple and a hint of honey over a gentle almond finish. An easy everyday white for carbonara, fried antipasti and lean fish.
Notes built from Cantine San Marco's own descriptions and the Vivino drinker consensus (3.2 from nearly 1,200 ratings). Expect a delicate, citrus-led white with the floral, honeyed lift Malvasia gives a Castelli Romani blend.
Pale straw in the glass, with a delicate, citrus-led nose: lemon and green apple lifted by white blossom and a little jasmine, the floral note San Marco draws from the Malvasia del Lazio in the blend. A faint honeyed sweetness sits underneath.
Lemon
Jasmine
Green Apple
Peach
Flint
Almond
HoneyLight-bodied and dry, with fresh lemony acidity carrying green apple, peach and a touch of honey. Vivino's nearly 1,200 drinkers settle on a clean, easy balance, several flagging the slightly yeasty, cheese-rind edge that Malvasia-led Castelli Romani whites often show.
Short to medium, closing on the gentle bitter-almond note that runs through Frascati and through Lazio's Malvasia whites.
An honest, inexpensive everyday Frascati rather than a wine to cellar. Drink it young and well chilled within a couple of years of harvest; it is at its best as a Roman lunch white, which is how San Marco positions its Frascati range.
Currently stocked by Great Wines Direct and The Great Wine Co. at roughly £9.83 to £12. The 2024 is the in-stock vintage; the 2025 is listed but showing out of stock at the time of writing.
At under £12 for a Frascati DOC from an established Castelli Romani house, the value and everyday scores run high; the cellar and occasion scores stay low because this is a fresh, drink-now white.
Sub-£12, light, dry and food-friendly; exactly the kind of bottle built for a midweek meal rather than a special occasion.
Lowest live price £9.83 for a Frascati DOC from an established Castelli Romani house, below the appellation's typical £11 to £13; strong everyday value.
Inexpensive, dry, light and unoaked with familiar lemon and apple flavours; an easy, low-risk introduction to Italian white and to Frascati.
Light, high-acid white that flatters Roman pasta, fried antipasti and lean fish; versatile at the table, though not a match for big red-meat dishes.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our editorial methodology.
A compact view of what the Frascati denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
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Frascati is an early-drinking white, so vintage differences are small. Both the 2024 and 2025 are made for fresh, young drinking rather than long keeping; the 2024 carries about 12.5% alcohol.
An early-drinking vintage to enjoy young and well chilled; the 2025 is a fresh, everyday white rather than one to keep.
Drink the 2024 young: it is at its freshest within two to three years of the harvest, while the lemon and green-apple lift is at its brightest.
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.
San Marco bottles its Frascati in the town of Frascati itself, in the volcanic hills of the Castelli Romani southeast of Rome. The appellation's Malvasia and Trebbiano grapes give the region its classic everyday white.
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.
Frascati 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.
Frascati falls within Lazio , covering Lazio.
Frascati is a high-volume Castelli Romani appellation; San Marco's blended Malvasia and Trebbiano keeps fruit cost low and lands the bottle around £9.83 to £12.
Bottled fresh and unoaked, so there is no barrel or long-cellar cost to recover, unlike San Marco's Roma DOC or sparkling lines.
At 2026 HMRC rates a still wine of 12.5% carries about £2.67 duty, and 20% VAT adds more, together roughly £4 of tax on a £9.83 bottle before margin.
Freight from Frascati through a UK importer and online retailers such as Great Wines Direct and The Great Wine Co. adds a handling spread on a sub-£12 wine.
San Marco is a long-running Frascati house with broad UK availability, so scarcity adds nothing to the price.
Dishes that complement this wine
San Marco's Frascati earns its keep next to Roman cooking. Its fresh acidity and light, 12.5% body are built to cut the fat in carbonara and the salt in pecorino, and to refresh the palate between bites of fried antipasti.
Frascati is the traditional osteria white of Rome for a reason. Its fresh, lemony acidity cuts the egg and guanciale fat in carbonara and balances the salty pecorino and black pepper of cacio e pepe without adding weight.
Try with: Pasta alla carbonara · Pasta Cacio e Pepe · Spaghetti alla chitarra · More pairings →
Light body and brisk acidity make this a natural foil for fried starters. It refreshes the palate between bites of gnocco fritto, fried artichokes or salt-cod fritters, where a heavier white would clog.
Try with: Gnocco fritto · fried artichokes · filetti di baccalà fritti · More pairings →
Frascati's delicate weight sits well with fresh, milky cheeses. With Insalata Caprese the citrus and green-apple notes lift the mozzarella and tomato rather than competing with them.
Try with: Insalata Caprese · burrata · fresh ricotta · More pairings →
The wine's lemony acidity behaves like a squeeze of citrus over delicate fish. It freshens creamed salt cod and grilled white fish, balancing salt without masking the flavour.
Try with: Baccala Mantecato · grilled sea bass · poached sole · More pairings →
At 12.5% and light in body, this Frascati is flattened by chilli heat and lost against rich, slow-cooked red-meat ragus. Capsaicin amplifies the alcohol and strips the fruit; tannin-friendly braises simply overwhelm it.
Skip with: vindaloo · Sichuan hotpot · beef short rib ragu · Pairing guide →
This is an inexpensive, early-drinking white, not a wine to lay down. San Marco positions its Frascati for the table within a couple of years of release; there is no oak or extended ageing to reward patience.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Made for fresh, young drinking with no oak or mandated ageing; best within two to three years of harvest, so negligible cellar upside.
£9.83 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 light-bodied, dry white. Expect lemon and green apple over a delicate floral nose, a clean palate with a hint of honey, and the gentle bitter-almond finish typical of Frascati. Vivino drinkers rate it 3.2 across nearly 1,200 ratings.
The traditional Frascati blend: Malvasia di Candia and Malvasia del Lazio (Puntinata) for floral, honeyed character, with Trebbiano Toscano for freshness. These are the classic white grapes of the Castelli Romani south of Rome.
Dry. This is the secco (dry) style. Frascati's sweet version is bottled separately as Cannellino di Frascati, a late-harvest white, so the Superiore Secco is built for the table rather than for dessert.
Roman pasta such as carbonara and cacio e pepe, fried antipasti, fresh cheeses like mozzarella, and lean fish. The wine's bright acidity and light body cut through fat and salt without overpowering delicate dishes.
Drink it young. This is a fresh, inexpensive everyday white at its best within two to three years of the harvest, served well chilled. It is not a wine built for cellaring.
At Cantine San Marco in Frascati, in the province of Roma, Lazio. The vineyards sit in the volcanic Castelli Romani hills just southeast of Rome.
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