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Tenute Sella & Mosca
Sella & Mosca's top Vermentino selection, grown on marine soils near Alghero, aged briefly in steel on its lees. Dry, citrus-fresh and salty, with white peach and a long stony finish. A Sardinian seafood white, best drunk young, around £15.
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A selection of Sella & Mosca's best Vermentino, grown on ancient marine soils near Alghero and aged briefly in steel on its fine lees. Citrus and white peach lead, then a salty, stony finish.
Deep straw-yellow with green flecks. The wine opens on grapefruit and white peach lifted by a clear tropical note, the producer's signature on this cuvee. Behind the fruit sits the dry, herbal scent of Sardinian macchia and a salty note that reads as wet stone.
Grapefruit
Lemon
Apricot
Green Apple
Pineapple
White peach
Chamomile
Wet stonesDry and brisk. The acidity of 5.2 grams per litre keeps it taut while the absence of a second, softer fermentation preserves a citrus-fresh line. Ripe stone fruit fills the middle. But the defining feature is the lush, salty sapidity Sella & Mosca builds from marine-soil fruit near Alghero. Medium-bodied at 13.5%, with no oak to blur it.
The finish is long, stony and savoury, leaving a brine-and-citrus echo rather than fruit sweetness. It is the saltiness, not the fruit, that lingers.
A textbook salty Sardinian Vermentino and Sella & Mosca's top selection of the grape, best drunk young as a seafood white or aperitif. Gambero Rosso gave the 2024 91/100, and it is a well-liked wine for its freshness and value near £15.
Live UK listings for Sella & Mosca Cala Reale sit around £15 a bottle for the current 2024 and 2025 vintages, strong value for a wine Gambero Rosso scored 91/100.
75cl · 2019: £17.50, 1 UK retailer
A salty, low-tannin Vermentino around £15 scores high for everyday drinking and seafood pairing, lower for cellaring or grand occasions.
Classic, low-tannin expression of an indigenous Italian grape: easy, citrus-fresh and forgiving for newcomers.
A sub-£16 salty white that drinks well as an aperitif or weeknight seafood pour is an easy everyday choice.
Salty, brisk, unoaked Vermentino is a versatile coastal seafood white that pairs across shellfish, fried fish and antipasti.
Around £15 with Gambero Rosso 91/100 and a well-liked record among drinkers, well above the anonymous sub-£10 Vermentino tier.
A reliable entry-level DOC white rather than a prestige bottle; pleasant but not a special-occasion centrepiece.
Short steel ageing, no oak and no softening second fermentation mean it is built to drink within two to three years, not to cellar.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Vermentino di Sardegna denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Cala Reale is built for early drinking. Gambero Rosso gave the 2024 91/100, the 2025 is the freshest in the market, and the 2019 now sits at the end of its window.
The freshest Cala Reale on the market, the 2025 leads with grapefruit, white peach and brisk saline acidity. Drink it young, while the fruit and the marine-soil salinity are at full lift.
Gambero Rosso awarded the 2024 Cala Reale 91/100. Like every vintage of this saline Sardinian white, it is built for early drinking, at its citrus-fresh, mineral best within two to three years of the vintage.
A steel-aged, early-drinking Vermentino, the 2019 now sits past its freshest window. Bottled without malolactic for crisp salinity, it showed best within two to three years of harvest.
The freshest Cala Reale on the market, the 2025 leads with grapefruit, white peach and brisk saline acidity. Drink it young, while the fruit and the marine-soil salinity are at full lift.
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.
Sella & Mosca farms one of Europe's largest single estates at Alghero. Cala Reale draws on its best Vermentino from marine-origin soils, made without the softening second fermentation to keep the saltiness sharp.
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.
Vermentino di Sardegna 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.
Vermentino di Sardegna falls within Sardinia, covering The whole island of Sardinia: every vineyard from the Sulcis in the south-west to Gallura in the north-east, with no point more than 53 km from the sea (art. 3 and 9).
Wine route
2 days · 7 stops
Open the driveWine route
2 days, 135 km · 4 stops
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Winery
Alghero
Made at Tenute Sella & Mosca, Alghero. Directions
Wine routes in the zone: Strada del Vermentino di Gallura, Strada del Cannonau.
Cala Reale is a top selection of Sella & Mosca's Vermentino, not the volume La Cala bottling, which lifts it above the £8-10 supermarket Vermentino tier.
Sella & Mosca farms 500-plus hectares of its own coastal vineyards; estate-grown fruit on salty marine soils costs more than bought-in bulk Vermentino.
Short ageing in stainless steel with no barrel programme keeps cellar costs low and holds the price near £15 rather than the oak-aged tier.
A generous permitted yield of 120 quintals per hectare spreads costs across more bottles, helping keep Cala Reale affordable.
UK excise duty of £2.67 a bottle plus 20% VAT adds close to £5 to a ~£15 wine before the liquid itself is counted.
Critical recognition, Gambero Rosso's 91/100 and a 90 from a second guide, plus broad retailer listings support a small premium over anonymous Sardinian whites.
Dishes that go with this wine
Brisk acidity and a briny, salty edge make Cala Reale a natural with Sardinian seafood and shellfish. It echoes the Alghero coast it grows beside.
Brisk acidity and a 5.2 grams per litre backbone cut through olive-oil-slicked seafood pasta and lift briny clams and mussels. The wine's own saltiness mirrors the sea flavours rather than fighting them.
Try with: Fregula ai frutti di mare · Spaghetti alle vongole · Linguine ai ricci · Bottarga pasta · More pairings →
Cala Reale's lush, salty sapidity, built from marine-soil fruit near Alghero, locks onto the brine of mussels, clams and oysters. Salt meets salt, and the citrus keeps it refreshing.
Try with: Impepata di cozze · Cozze arraganate · Oysters · Sea urchin · More pairings →
The Mediterranean-scrub and herbal notes Sella & Mosca describes bridge to grilled fish dressed with rosemary, fennel or salmoriglio. The tropical lift on the nose echoes the char.
Try with: Pesce spada alla Siciliana · Grilled sea bass · Orata al forno · Swordfish skewers · More pairings →
No oak and a crisp, stony finish make this a clean foil for fritto misto and salt-cod fritters, scrubbing fat between bites the way a squeeze of lemon would.
Try with: Fritto misto di mare · Baccala fritters · Calamari fritti · Frittelle · More pairings →
Medium-bodied at 13.5% and savoury, it stands up to saffron-spiced malloreddus and young pecorino sardo with pane carasau without overwhelming them, a local-with-local match.
Try with: Malloreddus alla Campidanese · Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Culurgiones · More pairings →
Delicate and salty, Cala Reale has no residual sugar to tame capsaicin or sticky sweet-sour glazes; fierce chilli heat strips its citrus and flattens the saltiness. Keep it to clean seafood and vegetables.
Skip with: Vindaloo · Sichuan chilli oil dishes · Sweet-and-sour pork · Nduja-heavy pasta · Pairing guide →
Unoaked and bottled without the softening second fermentation, Cala Reale is made to drink in its first two to three years. There is little reward in holding it longer.
Peak around 2027. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Pour it straight from the bottle.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
Short steel ageing, no oak and no softening second fermentation mean it is built to drink within two to three years, not to cellar.
£12.60 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at XtraWine, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from published drinker ratings, 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 dry, salty Sardinian white: grapefruit and white peach over a stony finish. Made from 100% Vermentino on marine soils near Alghero and aged in steel without oak, it stays fresh and citrus-driven.
Sardinian seafood is the natural match: fregula ai frutti di mare, mussels, grilled fish and bottarga pasta. Its saltiness and brisk acidity also handle vegetable antipasti and make it a fine aperitif.
No. Cala Reale is bottled without the softening second fermentation and aged only briefly in steel, so it is built for early drinking. Enjoy it within two to three years of the vintage, while the fruit and saltiness are at their freshest.
It sits around £15 a bottle at UK retailers for the current 2024 and 2025 vintages. That is strong value for a wine that took 91/100 from Gambero Rosso for the 2024.
13.5% by volume, with 5.2 grams per litre total acidity and no softening second fermentation. That combination is why it tastes so crisp and salty despite the ripe Sardinian fruit.
Alghero, in north-west Sardinia. Sella & Mosca farms one of Europe's largest single estates there, and Cala Reale comes from its best Vermentino grown on ancient marine-origin soils by the sea.
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