IGT White

Edda Bianco Salento IGP, San Marzano

Cantine San Marzano
Grapes
Chardonnay, Fiano
Denomination
Salento IGT
Region
Puglia
Drink
Now to 2028

Edda means 'she' in the Salento dialect. Mainly Chardonnay with local white grapes, picked in August and fermented in French oak barrels. Peach, a delicate vanilla and a salty, stony finish. About £16.80 to £22.

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Where to buy San Marzano 'Edda Lei Bianco', Salento

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Tasting Notes

What San Marzano's Edda tastes like

Soft floral notes, peach and a delicate vanilla, then a fresh, stony palate: the picture San Marzano itself paints, and a wine drinkers like, year after year. The oak shows as texture more than as flavour.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial
Tasted on
7 September 2026
Vintage in glass
2024
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Typical of Chardonnay
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Peach comes first, with the soft floral note San Marzano describe on their own sheet, and a delicate vanilla behind it. That vanilla is the French oak the wine ferments in, not an added flavour. Picking in August keeps the fruit fresh rather than heavy.

Citrusy fruitCitrusy fruit
AppleApple
PeachPeach
Wet stonesWet stones
ButterButter
OakOak
VanillaVanilla
Palate

Fresh and rounded at the same time. Four months resting on the spent yeast, stirred back through the wine every week, is what puts that weight in the mouth. Salento's wide day to night temperature swings hold the acidity up, so it never turns soft despite the heat.

Finish

Savoury and stony, with a salty edge that stays. San Marzano call the wine generous in its elegance, and the finish is where that generosity actually shows.

Overall

A serious white from a region better known for big reds, and one drinkers like, year after year. Drink it with fish and Puglian vegetables at 12 to 14°C.

Drink now Best by 2028
Live UK pricing

Buying Edda Bianco in the UK

Four listings: £16.80 to £20 for a standard bottle and £44 for a magnum. The older 2022 sits at £22.02 while the current 2024 costs less, so paying up for the earlier vintage buys nothing here.

Best price · 75 cl · 2024 £17.50 at XtraWine
75cl · 2024 available from XtraWine £17.50, in stock
Vintages live 2024 · 2022 Current release: 2024
Per-litre (75cl · 2024 basis) £23.33 Lowest current 75cl · 2024 offer
Last checked 28 Oct 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Other vintages and formats: 1 price line

75cl · 2022: £22.02, 1 UK retailer

Wine fit score

How Edda scores on our six measures

Scored on food, value, cellar life and three more. A white with real body that drinkers like, year after year, which makes it good value. Four months in barrel is not built for long keeping.

Best value 8.7/10

From £16.80 for a white that drinkers like, year after year. Barrel-fermented whites at this price are rare.

Best with food 8.5/10

Body from the barrel plus a salty, savoury finish. It covers fish, shellfish and Puglian vegetable pasta, which is a wider range than a light unoaked white manages.

Best intro to this style 7.6/10

Ripe, rounded and gently vanilla-scented, with nothing sharp or odd about it. Anyone who likes Chardonnay will get on with it straight away.

Best everyday bottle 7.2/10

Under £20 and easy to drink, though richer and more serious than a weeknight white. Better with a meal than on its own.

Best for an occasion 5.8/10

An oak-fermented white that drinkers like, with a magnum option at £44. Good for a table of guests, if not a landmark bottle.

Best for cellar 3.4/10

Four months in barrel gives texture, not longevity. The peach fruit is the point and it fades, so three or four years from the harvest is the useful window.

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

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Salento in five fields

A compact view of what the Salento denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
51 varieties listed
This bottle: Chardonnay, Fiano.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Puglia
Style
IGT · Salento
Classification
IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica)
What that means →
Vintages

Why Edda is picked in August

San Marzano pick Edda in August, weeks ahead of their reds. Salento gets very hot, and an early harvest is how they keep acidity in a white this far south. Large day to night temperature swings at about 100 metres do the rest.

2024 Current release
Best price
£17.50
Retailers
1 in stock
Window
Drink now through 2028

2024 brought long heat and hard drought to Salento. Bunches came in smaller than usual but exceptionally healthy, and ripening ran early. For a white picked in August that timing matters more than the heat, and the fruit kept its freshness.

2022 Previous release
Best price
£22.02
Retailers
1 in stock
Window
Drink now through 2026

2022 was hot and dry right across southern Italy, with small yields. Picking Edda in August, before the worst of the late heat, is what protects the acidity in a year like this. Expect a rounder, riper style than the 2024.

2024 Current release
Best price
£17.50
Retailers
1 in stock
Window
Drink now through 2028

2024 brought long heat and hard drought to Salento. Bunches came in smaller than usual but exceptionally healthy, and ripening ran early. For a white picked in August that timing matters more than the heat, and the fruit kept its freshness.

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

San Marzano, and the wine they named 'she'

Edda is 'she' in the Salento dialect. The vines grow around the village of San Marzano in Puglia, on thin, fine-textured soil about 100 metres above the sea. They are trained on wires and planted close, 4,500 to the hectare.

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.

Salento 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. 51 varieties listed in the disciplinare
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
03

Region and area context

Salento falls within Puglia.

The zone the estate stands in The producer

Made at Cantine San Marzano, San Marzano S. G.. Directions

04

Reading the label

  • Cantine San MarzanoProducer / estate
  • Chardonnay · FianoGrape varieties
  • Salento IGTGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2024Vintage (year of harvest)
05

What sits behind the price of San Marzano 'Edda Lei Bianco', Salento

Tracked from
£17.50
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
4 up / 2 down
Main factor
Fermented in French oak barrels
  1. 01

    Fermented in French oak barrels

    Cost up

    Most whites at this price ferment in steel tanks. Edda goes into French oak barrels instead, which cost far more per litre of wine and have to be replaced every few years.

  2. 02

    Four months of weekly work in the cellar

    Cost up

    The wine sits four months on the yeast left after fermenting, and someone stirs it back through every week. That is labour and cellar space on a wine that could otherwise be bottled and sold within weeks.

  3. 03

    A separate August pass through the vineyard

    Cost up

    Picking in August means a separate, earlier pass through the vineyard from the reds. Training the vines on wires also means more pruning by hand than an old bush-trained plot.

  4. 04

    UK duty and VAT

    Cost up

    Duty on a still white is £2.67 a bottle and VAT takes a fifth of the shelf price. On the £16.80 listing that is about £5.45 gone before the wine is paid for.

  5. 05

    Salento is cheap land for white grapes

    Cost down

    Puglia's vineyard land costs a fraction of what Burgundy or even Alto Adige asks for barrel-fermented whites. That gap is the whole reason Edda lands under £20.

  6. 06

    Salento IGP, not a famous white name

    Cost down

    Salento is known for red Primitivo, not for whites, so the label carries no premium of its own. The wine is priced on what is in the bottle rather than on the name.

01

Fermented in French oak barrels

Cost up

Most whites at this price ferment in steel tanks. Edda goes into French oak barrels instead, which cost far more per litre of wine and have to be replaced every few years.

Food Pairing

Peach, salt and oak: what Edda is for

San Marzano put starters, fish first courses and cheese on their own sheet. The barrel gives it enough body for octopus and baked mussels, and the salty finish keeps pace with Puglia's own vegetable pasta dishes.

Body matching Strong match

Octopus and grilled fish

Octopus and swordfish have real texture, and a thin, sharp white slides straight past them. Four months in barrel gives Edda the weight to sit alongside them. The salty finish echoes the char off the grill.

Try with: Polpo alla pignata · Pesce spada alla Siciliana · Fregula ai frutti di mare · More pairings →

Salt balance Strong match

Mussels and shellfish

Shellfish bring their own salt and sea flavour, which can make a soft white taste dull. Edda answers with its own salty, savoury finish, so the two meet rather than cancel out. This is the match Puglia makes at home.

Try with: Cozze arraganate · Impepata di cozze · Mussels · More pairings →

Aromatic bridge Good match

Puglia's own vegetable pasta

Bitter greens and chickpeas are hard on wine: they flatten fruit and sharpen anything green-tasting. Edda's ripe peach and its rounded texture cushion that bitterness instead of arguing with it. Both dishes come from the same few miles of Puglia.

Try with: Orecchiette con cime di rapa · Ciceri e tria · More pairings →

Fat cutting Good match

Fried and battered fish

Batter and hot oil coat the mouth, and that needs acidity to clear. Edda keeps its acidity because the grapes come in during August, before the heat drops it. The barrel weight then holds up against the fried batter itself.

Try with: Fish and Chips · Potted Shrimp · Crab · More pairings →

Acidity matching Good match

Mild and fresh cheese

San Marzano put cheese on their own pairing list, and it works with the mild, milky end rather than the strong stuff. The acidity cuts the fat and the vanilla note flatters a creamy rind. Blue cheese is a step too far.

Try with: Cheese board · Lancashire Cheese

Avoid Clash

Red meat and fierce heat

A braise or a barbecue simply buries a white wine, however much body it has. Strong chilli is worse: it strips the peach fruit out and leaves the oak sticking out on its own. Blue cheese overwhelms it too.

Skip with: Brasato al Barolo · BBQ ribs · Lamb bhuna · Blue cheese · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Drink it young, and not ice cold

Open this within three or four years of the harvest, while the peach fruit is still forward. Serve it at 12 to 14°C. Straight out of the fridge, both the texture and the vanilla note disappear.

Drinking window
2025 → 2028

Peak around 2026. 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

Four months in barrel gives texture, not longevity. The peach fruit is the point and it fades, so three or four years from the harvest is the useful window.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£17.50 for a 75cl bottle of the 2024, at XtraWine, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this Edda page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 28 Oct 2026, 08:55 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 4.2 out of 5 from 17,973 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

Chardonnay, Salento and San Marzano

Producer
Cantine San Marzano Puglia
Grapes
Chardonnay Fiano
Denomination
Salento IGT
Region
Puglia Region guide

Common Questions

Edda is 'she' in the Salento dialect. San Marzano use the name for the feminine side of their range. It is their oak-fermented white, grown in the same corner of Puglia as their Primitivo reds.

Peach and soft floral notes come first, then a delicate vanilla from the barrels. The palate is fresh and rounded at the same time, and it ends on a salty, stony note. It is a richer white than most Puglian bottles at this price.

Mainly Chardonnay. San Marzano blend in local Puglian white grapes but do not name them on their own sheet. The blend is usually described as holding small amounts of Fiano and Moscatello Selvatico.

It is oak-influenced rather than oaky. The wine ferments in French oak barrels and stays there four months on its lees, which are stirred back through it every week. That builds texture and a light vanilla note, not a heavy woody taste.

San Marzano suggest starters, fish first courses and cheese. It suits Puglia's own cooking well: octopus, baked mussels, and orecchiette with greens. Serve it at 12 to 14°C rather than fridge-cold.

From about £16.80 to £20 for a standard bottle in the shops we track, and £44 for a magnum. Drinkers like it, year after year, which is unusual for a white at this price.

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