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 saline, with white peach and a long mineral finish. A Sardinian seafood white, best drunk young, around £15.
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, mineral finish.
Deep straw-yellow with green flecks, opening 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 saline note Vivino drinkers consistently call out as stony and mineral.
Grapefruit
Lemon
Apricot
Green Apple
Pineapple
White peach
Chamomile
Wet stonesDry and brisk, the 5.2 g/l acidity keeping it taut while the absence of malolactic 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, mineral and savoury, leaving a brine-and-citrus echo rather than fruit sweetness. It is the saltiness, not the fruit, that lingers.
A textbook saline 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; Vivino's 5,000-plus drinkers settle around 3.8, consistently praising 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.
A saline, 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 saline white that drinks well as an aperitif or weeknight seafood pour is an easy everyday choice.
Saline, 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 Vivino 3.8 from 5,000+ ratings, well above the anonymous sub-£10 Vermentino tier.
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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.
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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.
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, vinified without malolactic to keep the salinity 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 Sardinia.
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 saline 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 91/100, Falstaff 90) and broad retailer listings support a small premium over anonymous Sardinian whites.
Dishes that complement this wine
Brisk acidity and a briny, saline 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 g/l backbone cut through olive-oil-slicked seafood pasta and lift briny clams and mussels. The wine's own salinity 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, mineral 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 saline, Cala Reale has no residual sugar to tame capsaicin or sticky sweet-sour glazes; fierce chilli heat strips its citrus and flattens the salinity. 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 malolactic, 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.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Short steel ageing, no oak and no malolactic mean it is built to drink within two to three years, not to cellar.
£14.51 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 dry, saline Sardinian white: grapefruit and white peach over a salty, mineral 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 salinity and brisk acidity also handle vegetable antipasti and make it a fine aperitif.
No. Cala Reale is bottled without malolactic 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 salinity 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 g/l total acidity and no malolactic fermentation. That combination is why it tastes so crisp and saline 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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