Casa Vinicola Sartori
Sartori's Sella is a Soave Classico off the volcanic-basaltic hills east of Verona, 90% Garganega with Trebbiano di Soave. Steel and concrete ageing keeps it dry, mineral and saline, with pear, white peach and a bitter-almond finish at 12.5%.
Sella is 90% Garganega off the volcanic-basaltic Classico hills east of Verona, fermented and aged in steel and concrete. It drinks dry and saline, with pear, white peach and a signature bitter-almond close.
Sella opens pale straw with golden glints and a delicate orchard-fruit perfume: pear and white peach lead, lifted by jasmine and a citrus edge. Garganega off Soave's volcanic-basaltic hills adds a faint almond-and-stone top note. Vivino's drinkers most often reach for pear and apple here.
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AlmondDry and fresh, with lemon-pith acidity and the saline, stony minerality the volcanic basalt gives Garganega. Fermented and aged only in steel and concrete, it carries no oak weight, staying light at 12.5% with a gently savoury middle. Apple and pear fruit run through cleanly.
The close is a long, dry, bitter-almond note that Vivino drinkers consistently flag, over the wet-stone minerality of Sella's volcanic basalt. Clean rather than weighty.
An honest, dependable Soave Classico that drinkers rate 3.8 across 738 Vivino ratings, prized for its mineral freshness and almond finish. Sella is an everyday white to drink young, the kind of dry, saline Veneto Garganega that over-delivers near 11 pounds. The 2023 was the standout recent vintage.
Sella is an everyday-priced Soave, currently around 11 to 14 pounds across UK retailers and in stock. The 2023 and 2024 vintages are both available.
A dry, mineral, sub-14-pound Soave: strong on food and value, easy for newcomers to Italian whites, made for everyday drinking rather than cellaring or special occasions.
Dry, light and inexpensive, this is a midweek white for seafood and risotto rather than a special-occasion bottle.
Bright acidity, saline minerality and a low 12.5% weight make Garganega a versatile match for seafood, risotto and fresh cheese.
Around 11 to 14 pounds for a mineral, award-noted Soave Classico sits at the value end of the category; the 2023 took a WOW Silver.
A gentle, fruit-forward, unoaked Soave from a benchmark indigenous white grape, easy for newcomers to Italian whites to enjoy.
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A compact view of what the Soave denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
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Soave's 2023 came from a wet, demanding spring yet gave fresh, aromatic whites, and Sella 2023 took a WOW Silver from Civilta del Bere. The 2024 is rounder and more approachable.
A rounder, more approachable Soave vintage than 2023, fuller in fruit. Sella 2024 shows ripe pear and white peach over its saline core; drink through 2027 while fresh.
Born from a wet, demanding Veneto spring, yet a strong year for fresh Soave: Sella 2023 took a WOW Silver from Civilta del Bere. Mineral and citrus-edged; drink by 2026.
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 Classico zone is Soave's historic hillside heartland east of Verona, where volcanic-basaltic soils lend Garganega its saline, almond-tinged character. Sartori is based at Negrar di Valpolicella.
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.
Soave 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.
Soave falls within Veneto , covering Veneto. The denomination is further divided into 2 sub-zones.
Sella's Garganega comes off selected volcanic-basaltic vineyards in the Soave Classico hills east of Verona, costlier to farm than valley-floor DOC fruit but the source of its saline minerality.
Fermentation and ageing happen only in steel and concrete tanks, so there is no barrel cost; that restraint is part of why Sella lands near 11 pounds rather than 20-plus.
Soave DOC permits generous Garganega yields across a large appellation, keeping grape costs modest versus low-yield crus and holding the shelf price down.
Sartori, part of the Collis Heritage group at Negrar, bottles at volume; that scale spreads winemaking and packaging cost thin across the range and keeps Sella affordable.
At 12.5% ABV the still-wine duty is about 2.67 pounds a bottle, and 20% VAT adds more; together they are roughly a third of the ~11-pound UK shelf price.
As an Italian import, Sella carries cross-border freight, importer margin and UK retailer markup on top of the cellar-door price, lifting the final 11-to-14-pound tag.
Dishes that complement this wine
Sella's bright acidity and stony, saline finish are built for Venetian seafood, salt cod and vegetable risotto. Its 12.5% weight keeps delicate plates in focus rather than overwhelming them.
Sella's lemon-pith acidity and saline, volcanic-soil minerality lift creamy Venetian salt cod and delicate raw or poached seafood, refreshing the palate between rich, briny mouthfuls.
Try with: Baccala Mantecato · Polpo alla pignata · seafood crudo · fish appetizers · More pairings →
Garganega's brisk acidity and stony, saline finish scythe through the fat of fried fish and the brine of shellfish, the classic Veneto fritto-misto-and-Soave logic.
Try with: fritto misto · fried calamari · grilled prawns · Polpo alla pignata · More pairings →
The wine's gentle steel-and-concrete weight and orchard-fruit core sit beside a creamy vegetable risotto, its citrus edge keeping each spoonful fresh; radicchio's slight bitterness even echoes the almond finish.
Try with: Radicchio risotto · Pumpkin risotto · asparagus risotto · risotto with peas · More pairings →
Acidity is Sella's tool against butter and olive oil: it cuts the richness of a seafood linguine or a squid-ink risotto, and its saline thread chimes with the shellfish rather than fighting it.
Try with: Squid ink risotto · spaghetti alle vongole · seafood linguine · Trofie al pesto · More pairings →
Its jasmine-and-white-peach perfume and almond-tinged close flatter young, milky cheeses and lightly dressed vegetable antipasti, lifting them without overwhelming their delicacy.
Try with: Gnocco fritto · fresh mozzarella · stracchino · marinated courgettes · More pairings →
At 12.5% with no oak and little residual sugar, Sella has nothing to tame fierce chilli heat or heavy barbecue smoke; the spice flattens its delicate pear-and-almond fruit and exaggerates the bitter finish.
Skip with: vindaloo · Sichuan hotpot · smoky barbecue ribs · nduja pasta · Pairing guide →
This is a wine to enjoy young. Drink within two to three years of the vintage while the pear, citrus and white peach are at their freshest; Sella is not built for the cellar.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Built for freshness, not the cellar: no oak, no ageing requirement, best within two to three years of the vintage.
£11.16 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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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 dry white with pear, apple and white peach fruit over a saline, stony minerality from Soave's volcanic-basaltic soils, closing on a gentle bitter-almond note. Garganega gives the fruit; Trebbiano di Soave adds lift.
Garganega 90% and Trebbiano di Soave 10%, grown in the Classico hills east of Verona. Garganega drives the orchard fruit and almond signature, while Trebbiano di Soave sharpens the acidity.
Pour it with Venetian seafood antipasti, salt cod, vegetable risotto and fried fish. Its acidity and saline finish cut richness and brine, while the modest 12.5% weight keeps delicate dishes in focus.
No. It ferments and ages in steel and concrete tanks with no wood, so the fruit stays fresh and the minerality clear. A short skin maceration adds texture without colour or tannin.
Drink it young, within two to three years of the vintage, while the pear and citrus are bright. The 2023 was the stronger recent vintage, taking a WOW Silver from Civilta del Bere; the 2024 is rounder and more approachable.
It is an everyday-priced Soave, around 11 to 14 pounds in the UK and in stock at several retailers. That puts it among the better-value dry whites the Veneto makes.
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