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Sartori Sella Soave Classico DOC
Casa Vinicola Sartori
Vintages
2025
2024
2023
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%.
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Tasting Notes
Lemon
Jasmine
Apple
Pear
Pineapple
White peach
Wet stones
Almond
Inside Sartori's Sella: Garganega from volcanic Soave hills
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.
- Tasted by
- ItalianWines editorial
- Tasted on
- 11 June 2026
- Source
- Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
- Taste profile
Nose
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.
Lemon
JasmineApplePearPineappleWhite peachWet stonesAlmondPalate
Dry 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.
Finish
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.
Overall
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.
Drink now
Best by 2027
Wine fit score
How Sella Soave Classico scores for the way you drink
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.
Best everyday bottle
9.0/10
Dry, light and inexpensive, this is a midweek white for seafood and risotto rather than a special-occasion bottle.
Best with food
8.8/10
Bright acidity, saline minerality and a low 12.5% weight make Garganega a versatile match for seafood, risotto and fresh cheese.
Best intro to this style
8.4/10
A gentle, fruit-forward, unoaked Soave from a benchmark indigenous white grape, easy for newcomers to Italian whites to enjoy.
Best for an occasion
3.0/10
An everyday Soave Classico rather than a prestige cuvee: pleasant but not a centrepiece for special occasions.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
Denomination Compliance Snapshot
Soave in five fields
A compact view of what the Soave denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Allowed grapes
3 varieties listed
This bottle: Garganega.
Minimum ageing
No statutory minimum
Producers release on their own schedule; 4 to 6 months in steel is typical.
Region / area
Verona: the eastern hills and plain around Soave and Monteforte d'Alpone, to the Colli Scaligeri
Source: Disciplinare.
Style
DOC · Soave
Minimum ABV at this colour: 10.5%.
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Last Observed Price
£11.52
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Last Checked
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Best price
Awaiting restock
2025
£11.52
£15.36/L · checked 15 Aug
Vintages
2025
Sold through
2024
Sold through
2023
Sold through
2024
Sold through
Sella 2023 and 2024: two Soave growing seasons
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.
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- ABV
- 12.5%
- Window
- Past peak through 2027
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.
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- ABV
- 12.5%
- Window
- Past peak through 2026
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.
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- ABV
- 12.5%
- Window
- Past peak through 2027
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.
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
Soave Classico and the Garganega grape
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.
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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.
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.
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The denomination rules, in detail
- Allowed grapes. 3 varieties listed in the disciplinare
- Yield ceiling. 15.0 tonnes per hectare
- Minimum ABV. 10.5% vol
- Minimum ageing. No statutory minimum - producers release on their own schedule
- Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
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Region and area context
Soave falls within Veneto , covering Verona: the eastern hills and plain around Soave and Monteforte d'Alpone, to the Colli Scaligeri. The denomination is further divided into 2 sub-zones.
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Reading the label
- Casa Vinicola SartoriProducer / estate
- GarganegaGrape varieties (in declared order of dominance)
- Soave DOCGeographic indication and quality tier
- 2025Vintage (year of harvest)
- Producer-declared ABV · 75 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
Perfect Pairings
Dishes that complement this wine
Food Pairing
Garganega acidity and saline minerality: dishes that fit Sella
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.
Acidity matching
Strong match
Venetian seafood antipasti and salt cod
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 →
Salt balance
Strong match
Fritto misto and fried shellfish
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 →
Body matching
Good match
Vegetable and herb risotto
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 →
Fat cutting
Good match
Lighter seafood pasta and risotto
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 →
Aromatic bridge
Good match
Fresh cheese and vegetable starters
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 →
Avoid
Clash
Fierce chilli heat and heavy smoke
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 →
Drinking + cellar
Drinking window for Sartori Sella Soave Classico
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.
Decanting
no
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Cellar potential
Low
Built for freshness, not the cellar: no oak, no ageing requirement, best within two to three years of the vintage.
Sources & trust
Sources behind this Sella Soave page
Tasting notes
Drawn 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 · 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
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Explore Garganega, Soave and the Veneto
Producer
Casa Vinicola Sartori
Veneto
Grapes
Garganega
Denomination
Soave
DOC
Region
Veneto
Region guide
Cuisine
Italian Cuisine
5 dishes paired
Common Questions
It 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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