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Tormaresca
The Antinori family's Puglia estate makes this Chardonnay entirely in stainless steel, so it stays taut rather than buttery. Pear, lemon and orange blossom over a mineral finish at 12.5%. Three UK listings from £14.99.
Pear, apple and peach lead the drinker consensus at 482 mentions, ahead of citrus and lemon at 336. Tormaresca's own note runs more floral: orange blossom, thyme, rose and lavender. The wine never meets wood, fermenting and resting in stainless steel until bottling.
Pear, apple and peach dominate the drinker consensus, at 482 mentions across 1,233 Vivino reviews, with citrus and lemon close behind at 336. Tormaresca's own note is more floral and herbal, naming orange blossom, thyme, rose and lavender. Vivino's house description adds hay and sage.
Lemon
Orange blossom
Apple
Peach
Pear
Flint
Hay
HoneyDry and fresh at 12.5%, carried by acidity rather than by weight. Tormaresca chills the must to 10 degrees Celsius for 24 hours to settle it, ferments at 16 degrees in temperature-controlled steel and keeps the wine in steel until bottling, which is why the fruit stays taut instead of broad. Roughly 200 reviewers report butter and vanilla, but no wood touches this wine: that reading comes from ripeness.
Mineral and faintly saline, closing clean and short on the delicate savoury aftertaste Tormaresca describes on its own sheet.
The everyday end of Antinori's Puglia range, priced accordingly at £14.99 to £19.99 across three UK listings. Vivino's 13,345 raters settle at 3.7, with both the 2023 and the new 2025 at 3.8, and the recurring verdict is a dependable, uncomplicated white rather than one to think hard about.
Three UK listings are live. House of Decant has the 2025 at £14.99 and vino.com at £15.58, while Cellier holds the 2023 at £19.99. The 2025 is the cheaper and fresher buy; the 2023 carries a Wine Enthusiast 91/100 as reported by vino.com.
The scores below weigh an unoaked 12.5% white against a £14.99 to £19.99 UK range, Puglia IGT's absence of any ageing requirement, and a Vivino average of 3.7 across 13,345 ratings.
Under £20 across all three UK listings, low in alcohol and flexible with food: this is the weekday end of the range and makes no demands.
Unoaked, dry, fruit-forward and 12.5%: there is nothing austere or challenging here, and Chardonnay is the most familiar white grape on any shelf.
Acidity, low alcohol and no oak make this unusually easy to place: shellfish, fried seafood, bitter greens and mildly spiced vegetables all work, and only heavy red meat is out of reach.
At £14.99 for the 2025 it sits mid-market for a southern Italian IGT white, and the Antinori estate behind it buys more consistency than the price band usually delivers.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Puglia denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
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Vivino rates both vintages at 3.8, from 794 ratings for the 2023 and 243 for the newly released 2025, which it flags as a top-rated year for this wine. Neither is a vintage to wait on: this is an unoaked white with no ageing requirement behind it.
The current release and the fresher buy, at £14.99 against the 2023's £19.99. Vivino flags 2025 as a top-rated year for this wine, at 3.8 from 243 early ratings, and an unoaked Chardonnay is at its most expressive in its first two years.
The 2023 is the older of the two vintages on UK shelves and is now at the back end of its window. vino.com reports a Wine Enthusiast 91/100 for it, and Vivino's 794 raters put it at 3.8, level with every other recent year of this wine.
The current release and the fresher buy, at £14.99 against the 2023's £19.99. Vivino flags 2025 as a top-rated year for this wine, at 3.8 from 243 early ratings, and an unoaked Chardonnay is at its most expressive in its first two years.
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.
Tormaresca has been the Antinori family's Puglia estate since 1998, drawing on vineyards in Salento and on the Murgia above Bari. Bottled as Puglia IGT rather than Castel del Monte DOC, with no mandated ageing and no barrel programme, it avoids the costs that lift the estate's Pietrabianca higher.
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.
Puglia 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.
Puglia falls within Puglia , covering Puglia.
Unlike Tormaresca's Castel del Monte DOC bottlings, this goes out as Puglia IGT. It travels from harvest to bottle in months, so no capital sits in a cellar waiting for a rule to be satisfied.
Tormaresca ferments at 16 degrees in temperature-controlled steel and holds the wine in steel until bottling. A barrique programme would add cost to every bottle that this wine never incurs at all.
Tormaresca has been the Antinori family's Puglia estate since 1998 and sources this Chardonnay from vineyards in two separate zones. That volume spreads fixed winery cost thinly across the bottling.
The must is held at 10 degrees Celsius for 24 hours to settle naturally before fermenting under temperature control. Refrigeration at that scale is a real energy cost for a white made in the deep south.
Duty on still wine at 12.5% is £2.67 a bottle at 2026 rates, and VAT takes £2.50 of the £14.99 House of Decant price. About £5.17 of the cheapest UK listing never leaves the UK.
Dishes that complement this wine
Tormaresca points this wine at white meat, fish including grilled, shellfish, risotto and vegetable dishes. Vivino's drinkers land independently on shellfish, vegetarian plates and appetisers. Both suit a 12.5% white with no wood in the way.
Shellfish is saline and lightly sweet, and it needs acidity opposite it rather than weight. This wine has acidity as its backbone and no oak to blunt it, so the mineral, faintly salty finish Tormaresca describes runs alongside the seafood instead of over it. Puglia's own coast produced both halves of this match.
Try with: Cozze arraganate · Impepata di cozze · Polpo alla pignata · Mussels · More pairings →
Bitter greens and anchovy salt are the hardest part of the Puglian table for a wine. Fresh acidity resets the palate against the salt while the pear and peach fruit that 482 Vivino reviewers report softens the bitterness of the broccoli rabe. An oaked white would fight the greens; this one does not.
Try with: Apulian Orecchiette with Broccoli Rabe · Orecchiette con cime di rapa · Insalata Caprese · More pairings →
Frying coats the palate in fat, and acidity is the only thing that lifts it back off. At 12.5% with no oak weight, this cuts cleanly without adding richness of its own. Keep the batter light: the wine is a scalpel here, not a hammer.
Try with: Prawn Tempura · Salt and pepper prawns · Potted Shrimp
The thyme, sage and orange blossom in this wine meet the aromatic spicing of a vegetable biryani or a pakora on shared ground rather than in opposition. Low alcohol matters as much as the aromatics: at 12.5% there is little heat to amplify, which is why gently spiced food works where it would not with a bigger white.
Try with: Insalata Caprese · Vegetable biryani · Chicken pakora · More pairings →
Steamed fish is delicate enough that most whites bury it. This one matches its weight almost exactly, and the citrus that 336 reviewers cite echoes the ginger and spring onion of the dish. The same citrus register is why a lemon-sauced chicken sits comfortably alongside it.
Try with: Steamed sea bass · Salt and pepper prawns · Lemon chicken · More pairings →
A 12.5% unoaked white has no tannin and little body, so a long-braised or chargrilled red meat simply erases it. Serious chilli heat is the other failure: without residual sugar or oak texture to absorb it, the wine turns thin and sharp. Neither is a fault in the bottle, only a mismatch of weight.
Skip with: Brasato al Barolo · Fiorentina steak · Chicken madras · Szechuan beef · Pairing guide →
Fermented and held in steel with no wood contact, this is built for freshness rather than development, and Puglia IGT sets no minimum ageing. The orange blossom and thyme Tormaresca describes are the first things to fade, so open it within about three years of the harvest.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Puglia IGT carries no ageing requirement, the wine sees only stainless steel, and its aromatics are the first thing to fade. There is nothing here built to develop.
£14.80 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 · MediumTormaresca is the Antinori family's Puglia estate, founded in 1998 when the Florentine house began investing in the south. The Chardonnay draws on vineyards in Salento and on the Murgia plateau above Bari, and is released as Puglia IGT rather than under one of the estate's DOC labels.
No. The must is chilled to 10 degrees Celsius for 24 hours to settle naturally, then fermented with selected yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel at 16 degrees, and the wine stays in steel until bottling. Around 200 Vivino reviewers still report butter and vanilla, but that comes from ripe fruit rather than from a barrel.
Pear, apple and peach first, which is the single most cited group across 1,233 Vivino reviews, then citrus and lemon. Tormaresca's own note runs more floral and herbal, naming orange blossom, thyme, rose and lavender, over a fresh and mineral palate with a delicate savoury aftertaste.
Drink it young. There is no oak to carry it and Puglia IGT sets no minimum ageing, so the aromatics are at their best within about three years of the harvest. The 2023 is at the back end of that window now and the 2025 is the fresher buy.
Tormaresca points it at white meat, fish including grilled, shellfish, risotto and vegetable dishes. Vivino's drinkers arrive independently at shellfish, vegetarian plates and appetisers. Puglia's own table is the neatest answer: cozze arraganate, polpo alla pignata, orecchiette with cime di rapa.
Vivino rates both at 3.8, from 794 ratings for the 2023 and 243 for the 2025, which it flags as a top-rated year for this wine. The 2025 is cheaper in the UK at £14.99 and fresher; the 2023 costs £19.99 and carries a Wine Enthusiast 91/100 as reported by vino.com.
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