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Attems Sauvignon Blanc Venezia Giulia

Attems

Grape
Sauvignon Blanc
Denomination
Venezia Giulia IGT
Region
Friuli Venezia Giulia
ABV
12.5%
Drink
Now to 2028

Attems' Sauvignon from the Gorizia hills of Friuli, a Frescobaldi estate: nettle, gooseberry and grapefruit at 12.5%, steel-made, crisp and light. Falstaff gave the 2024 91 points; Vivino drinkers rate it 3.8 from 3,241 ratings. About £15 in the UK.

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2025 · 75cl · checked 27 Oct · Delivery usually £16.90, free over £129

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Tasting Notes

How Attems Sauvignon tastes: nettle, gooseberry and pomelo

Attems makes this Sauvignon in steel only, with four months resting on its yeast and no oak, so the grape's green side stays sharp. The estate's own sheet names boxwood, lily of the valley and pomelo; Falstaff's tasters found nettle, gooseberry and tomato leaf on the 2024 and gave it 91 points.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial (drinker consensus)
Tasted on
21 September 2026
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Typical of Sauvignon Blanc
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Nettle, gooseberry and tomato leaf first, the green Sauvignon notes Falstaff's tasters found on the 2024, with the pomelo and lily of the valley that Attems names on its own sheet. Vino.com's note adds melon, peach and sage.

GrapefruitGrapefruit
LemonLemon
BergamotBergamot
Lily of the valleyLily of the valley
GooseberryGooseberry
PeachPeach
Green pepperGreen pepper
NettlesNettles
Wet stonesWet stones
Palate

Light and crisp at 12.5%, with sharp acidity and the mineral streak Attems' own sheet describes; Wine-Searcher files the style as green and flinty. The vines sit on Eocene sandstone and pebbly river soil west of Gorizia. Made in steel with four months resting on its yeast and no softening second fermentation, so the citrus stays bright.

Finish

Fresh and fruity, with the bergamot and wisteria note Attems describes, and persistent enough for Falstaff to call it out on the 2024.

Overall

Attems' entry Sauvignon, below its single-vineyard Cicinis. Vivino drinkers rate it 3.8 from 3,241 ratings, with the 2025 opening at 4.0, and critics average 89 out of 100. Drink it young and cold with sea bass, pesto or a caprese salad.

Drink now Best by 2028
Live UK pricing

Buying Attems Sauvignon Blanc in the UK: two shops, about £15

Two shops tracked here list the 2025: vino.com at £14.90 on offer (£15.85 list) and xtrawine at £15.00. Wine-Searcher's worldwide average is about 14 euros before tax, so the UK price is close to the market for a wine that critics average at 89 out of 100 across 51 reviews.

Best price · 75 cl · 2025 £13.90 at Vino.com
Price spread · 75cl · 2025 £13.90 - £15.00 Across 2 UK retailers with 75cl · 2025 in stock
Retailers · 75cl · 2025 2UK 2 in stock
Vintages live 2025 Current release: 2025
Per-litre (75cl · 2025 basis) £18.53 Lowest current 75cl · 2025 offer
Last checked 28 Oct 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

Where Attems Sauvignon fits: a crisp, easy white for fish and salads

At about £15 and 12.5%, this is a weeknight white for fish, pesto and green vegetables, so it scores highest for food and everyday drinking. With 89-point critic backing it is also a safe bottle to open for guests, though not a cellar or celebration wine.

Best with food 8.5/10

Crisp acidity, citrus and green notes suit fish, salads, pesto and soft cheese; a natural table white.

Best intro to this style 8.4/10

A clean, unoaked Sauvignon at 12.5% from a grape everyone knows; an easy first Italian white.

Best everyday bottle 8.2/10

About £15, light and food-friendly; a weeknight white for fish and salads.

Best value 7.8/10

Priced £14.90 to £15.00 in the UK for a Frescobaldi-owned estate Sauvignon that critics average at 89 out of 100, close to its 14-euro worldwide average.

Best for an occasion 4.0/10

A well-scored estate white from a famous owner that pleases guests, but an IGT at £15 is not a celebration bottle.

Best for cellar 1.5/10

Steel-made and picked for freshness; drink within two or three years of the vintage.

Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Venezia Giulia in five fields

A compact view of what the Venezia Giulia denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
Variety list not yet recorded
This bottle: Sauvignon Blanc.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Friuli Venezia Giulia
Style
IGT · Venezia Giulia
Classification
IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica)
What that means →
Vintages

The 2025 Attems Sauvignon: a year Friuli's growers welcomed

The 2025 on sale followed a season the north-east's growers greeted as a great one for quality and quantity. Rain came at the right time, few treatments were needed and the crop was back to a normal size after two short years. Collio growers expected Sauvignon to shine on the swing between warm days and cool nights. Vivino's first 57 ratings average 4.0.

2025 Current release
Best price
£13.90
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
12.5%
Window
Drink now through 2028

A season Friuli's growers welcomed: rain at the right time, few treatments and a crop back to a normal size after two short years. Collio growers expected Sauvignon to gain aroma from the swing between warm days and cool nights. Vivino's first 57 ratings of the 2025 average 4.0.

2025 Current release
Best price
£13.90
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
12.5%
Window
Drink now through 2028

A season Friuli's growers welcomed: rain at the right time, few treatments and a crop back to a normal size after two short years. Collio growers expected Sauvignon to gain aroma from the swing between warm days and cool nights. Vivino's first 57 ratings of the 2025 average 4.0.

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

Attems: a Gorizia estate with records back to 1106, owned by Frescobaldi

The Attems family's vineyard land in the Collio is documented from 1106. The estate, now part of the Frescobaldi group, farms 44 hectares of south-facing terraces west of Gorizia. They are sheltered from the northern winds and the bora, the cold wind Trieste is known for. Its Sauvignon grows at about 60 metres on Eocene sandstone and pebbly river soil.

01

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.

Venezia Giulia 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.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. Varieties not yet recorded
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting
03

Region and area context

Venezia Giulia falls within Friuli Venezia Giulia.

The zone the estate stands in The producer

Made at Attems, Lucinico. Directions

04

Reading the label

  • AttemsProducer / estate
  • Sauvignon BlancGrape varieties
  • Venezia Giulia IGTGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2025Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 12.5% volAlcohol by volume
05

What sits behind the price of Venezia Giulia IGT Sauvignon Blanc Attems

Tracked from
£13.90
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
3 up / 2 down
Main factor
A restrained yield on a 44-hectare estate
  1. 01

    A restrained yield on a 44-hectare estate

    Cost up

    Attems crops this Sauvignon at 8,000 kilos a hectare from plots between the plain and the slopes west of Gorizia. A restrained yield like that costs more per bottle than a high-cropped Friuli Sauvignon.

  2. 02

    Frescobaldi ownership and a 1106 pedigree

    Cost up

    The Frescobaldi name and an estate history documented from 1106 carry a brand premium; Wine-Searcher still rates its quality-to-price as outstanding at a 14-euro average.

  3. 03

    UK duty and VAT on a 12.5% wine

    Cost up

    Of the £14.90 vino.com price, about £5.35 is tax: £2.87 duty on a 12.5% wine plus £2.48 VAT. The rest is shared by the estate, shipping and the shop.

  4. 04

    Steel only, no oak, sold young

    Cost down

    Fermented and rested in steel for four months, then sold the year after harvest. No barrels and no years of cellar space sit in the price, unlike the estate's oak-aged Cicinis.

  5. 05

    The IGT label, not Collio DOC

    Cost down

    Attems bottles this Sauvignon as Venezia Giulia IGT rather than the Collio DOC it once carried, which lets it blend plain and hillside plots and keep the price near £15.

01

A restrained yield on a 44-hectare estate

Cost up

Attems crops this Sauvignon at 8,000 kilos a hectare from plots between the plain and the slopes west of Gorizia. A restrained yield like that costs more per bottle than a high-cropped Friuli Sauvignon.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Palak paneer, plated

Palak paneer
Food Pairing

Sea bass, pesto and salads: what to eat with Attems Sauvignon

Crisp acidity, a light body and green, citrus aromas point this Sauvignon at fish and vegetables. Wine-Searcher lists white fish as its match, and the Italian shop Oltrevino suggests delicate fish, raw vegetable salads and soft cheese; pesto and a caprese salad are the home matches.

Acidity matching Strong match

Grilled and steamed white fish

Crisp acidity and citrus lift a plate of sea bass or swordfish the way a squeeze of lemon does. Wine-Searcher lists white fish as this Sauvignon's match, and its light body never smothers the fish.

Try with: Steamed sea bass · Pesce spada alla Siciliana · Fish Tacos · Baccala Mantecato

Aromatic bridge Strong match

Pesto, herbs and green vegetables

The nettle, tomato-leaf and sage notes in the glass echo basil, rocket and green herbs on the plate. Oltrevino's own list includes raw vegetable salads.

Try with: Trofie al pesto · Insalata Caprese · Radicchio risotto · Spring rolls · More pairings →

Fat cutting Good match

Smoked salmon and fried seafood

Sharp acidity cuts the oil in smoked salmon and the batter on tempura, and the wine's grapefruit note freshens each bite. Keep it very cold.

Try with: Scottish Smoked Salmon · Prawn Tempura · Salt and pepper squid · Fish and Chips

Body matching Good match

Soft cheese and light starters

Oltrevino suggests soft cheese, and a light 12.5% white matches fresh goat's cheese or mozzarella without weighing them down. Its acidity cleans up the creaminess.

Try with: Insalata Caprese · Arancini · Cheese board · Frittata di maccheroni · More pairings →

Salt balance Good match

Sushi, sashimi and prawns

Citrus and a mineral streak suit raw fish and shellfish, and the light body lets soy and wasabi through. A light, bright Friuli Sauvignon like this one suits raw fish better than a richer white would.

Try with: Nigiri Sushi · Sashimi · Salt and pepper prawns · Tandoori prawns

Avoid Clash

Red meat, creamy sauces and hot curries

A light, sharp white tastes thin next to steak or a rich braise, which want a red such as a Chianti Classico. Heavy cream sauces flatten its acidity, and chilli heat makes it taste sour.

Skip with: Fiorentina steak · Brasato al Barolo · Chicken korma · Chicken madras · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Drink Attems Sauvignon young, within two or three years

Made in steel and picked for freshness from late August, this is a wine to drink within two or three years of the vintage, well chilled. Attems publishes no drinking window; two or three years is our reading for a steel-made 12.5% white. Buy the newest year and open it.

Drinking window
2026 → 2028

Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.

Decanting
Not needed

Pour it straight from the bottle.

Serving temperature
8-12°C

Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.

Cellar potential
Low

Steel-made and picked for freshness; drink within two or three years of the vintage.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£13.90 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at Vino.com, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this Attems Sauvignon page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 28 Oct 2026, 09:02 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Drawn 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 3.8 out of 5 from 3,241 ratings on Vivino.

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
Related

Attems, Sauvignon Blanc and Friuli Venezia Giulia: connections

Producer
Attems Friuli Venezia Giulia
Grapes
Sauvignon Blanc
Denomination
Venezia Giulia IGT
Region
Friuli Venezia Giulia Region guide
Cuisine
Indian Cuisine 1 dishes paired

Common Questions

A wine estate west of Gorizia in Friuli Venezia Giulia, on the edge of the Collio hills, now owned by the Frescobaldi family of Tuscany. Records show Attems land under vines as far back as 1106, and the estate farms 44 hectares of south-facing terraces today.

Green and crisp: nettle, gooseberry and tomato leaf with grapefruit, peach and a mineral streak, at 12.5% and with no oak. Falstaff gave the 2024 91 points and called it very fresh with crisp acidity.

In steel throughout. About 15% of the grapes get a short cold soak on their skins and the juice settles for a day or two. It then ferments at 18 to 20C for 15 days and rests four months on its spent yeast. Attems skips the softening second fermentation to keep the acidity sharp.

No. Cicinis is the estate's single-vineyard Sauvignon, bottled as Collio DOC and aged in oak, and it costs more. This Venezia Giulia IGT is the fresh, steel-made entry Sauvignon.

Two shops tracked here list the 2025: vino.com at £14.90 on offer (£15.85 list) and xtrawine at £15.00. That is close to Wine-Searcher's worldwide average of about 14 euros before tax.

Fish and green food: steamed or grilled white fish, pesto, a caprese salad, smoked salmon and sushi. Its crisp acidity and light body suit soft cheese too. Keep it away from red meat, cream sauces and hot curries.

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