- Grape
- Chardonnay
- Denomination
- Puglia IGT
- Region
- Puglia
- ABV
- 12.5%
- Drink
- 2025: 2026 to 2028
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.
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Tormaresca's Chardonnay in the glass: pear, citrus and orange blossom
Pear, apple and peach lead, ahead of citrus and lemon. Under the fruit runs the floral side Tormaresca itself notes: orange blossom, thyme, rose and lavender. The wine never meets wood, fermenting and resting in stainless steel until bottling.
- Tasted by
- ItalianWines editorial
- Tasted on
- 27 July 2026
- Source
- Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
- Typical of Chardonnay
Pear, apple and peach lead, with citrus and lemon close behind. Under the fruit sits the floral, herbal side Tormaresca itself picks out: orange blossom, thyme, rose and lavender, with a touch of hay and sage.
Dry and fresh at 12.5%, carried by acidity rather than by weight. The must is chilled to 10 degrees Celsius for 24 hours to settle, then fermented at 16 degrees in temperature-controlled steel. The wine stays in steel until bottling, which is why the fruit stays taut instead of broad. A hint of butter and vanilla can show through, but no wood touches this wine: that comes from ripeness, not a barrel.
Mineral and faintly saline, closing clean and short on a delicate savoury aftertaste.
The everyday end of Antinori's Puglia range, priced accordingly at £14.99 to £19.99 across three UK listings. A well-liked, dependable and uncomplicated white rather than one to think hard about, whichever of the 2023 and the new 2025 you pick.
Tormaresca Chardonnay from £14.99: the UK picture
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.
Other vintages and formats: 2 price lines
75cl · Vintage not stated: £15.99, 1 UK retailer
75cl · 2023: £19.99, 1 UK retailer
Tormaresca Chardonnay scored across six uses
The scores below weigh an unoaked 12.5% white against a £14.99 to £19.99 UK range and Puglia IGT's absence of any ageing requirement. Its record as a well-liked everyday white counts too.
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. 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.
An entry-tier IGT from the everyday end of Antinori's Puglia range. It does its job well without carrying any occasion on its own.
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.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
Puglia in five fields
A compact view of what the Puglia denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Tormaresca Chardonnay 2023 and 2025 side by side
Drinkers rate the 2023 and the newly released 2025 alike. Neither is a vintage to wait on: this is an unoaked white with no ageing requirement behind it.
- Best price
- £12.50
- Retailers
- 3 in stock
- ABV
- 12.5%
- Window
- Drink now through 2028
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.
- Best price
- £19.99
- Retailers
- 1 in stock
- ABV
- 12.5%
- Window
- Drink now through 2026
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.
- Best price
- £15.99
- Retailers
- 1 in stock
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.
Perfect Pairings
Dishes that go with this wine
Puglian seafood and the case for a Chardonnay with no oak
Tormaresca points this wine at white meat, fish including grilled, shellfish, risotto and vegetable dishes. At the table it lands most often on shellfish, vegetarian plates and appetisers. Both suit a 12.5% white with no wood in the way.
Puglian mussels and octopus
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 →
Orecchiette with cime di rapa
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 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 →
Fried and battered seafood
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
Mildly spiced vegetable plates
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 and salt-fried Cantonese seafood
Steamed fish is delicate enough that most whites bury it. This one matches its weight almost exactly, and its citrus 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 →
Avoid red-meat braises and heavy chilli
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 →
Drink Tormaresca Chardonnay young, do not cellar it
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.
For the main offer above.
Pour it straight from the bottle.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more 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.
£12.50 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at XtraWine, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
Sources behind this Tormaresca Chardonnay page
Read directly from each retailer’s public product page several times a week. Last refresh: 6 Nov 2026, 06:00 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.
Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic. Drinkers score it 3.7 out of 5 from 13,345 ratings on Vivino.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, from how this wine is made, the rules of its appellation, UK duty and VAT and the price shops charge for it today. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumThe drinking years for the main offer apply to its 2025 vintage. Treat them as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumChardonnay, Puglia and Tormaresca: related pages
Common Questions
Tormaresca 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. It is then fermented with selected yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel at 16 degrees, and the wine stays in steel until bottling. A hint of butter and vanilla can still show through, but that comes from ripe fruit rather than from a barrel.
Pear, apple and peach first, then citrus and lemon. Underneath runs a floral and herbal side: orange blossom, thyme, rose and lavender, the notes Tormaresca itself names. The palate is fresh and mineral, 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.
White meat, fish including grilled, shellfish, risotto and vegetable dishes, which is where Tormaresca points it. Drinkers most often take it to shellfish, vegetarian plates and appetisers. Puglia's own table is the neatest answer: cozze arraganate, polpo alla pignata, orecchiette with cime di rapa.
The 2025, on price and freshness. Drinkers rate the two vintages alike, so the choice comes down to those two things. The 2025 is cheaper in the UK at £14.99 and fresher; the 2023 costs £19.99 and carries a Wine Enthusiast 91/100.
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