Giovanni Rosso Roero Arneis 2024 TAGS lavender and orange peel

lavender and orange peel

In the glass it will evolve

whole-cluster presses the fruit

this is Chardonnay made with a light hand on purpose

and citrus rather than the darker fruit of Russian River

Giovanni Rosso Roero Arneis 2024 TAGS lavender and orange peelPiedmontese growers named this grape arneis roughly, 'little rascal' because it was such a nuisance to farm, and by the 1970s they had all but given up on it. A handful of holdouts saved it from disappearing, and today it's Piedmont's signature white, grown mainly in Roero, just across the Tanaro river from Barolo where the soils turn sandy and the wines turn fragrant. Giovanni Rosso is a red wine house to its bones, which is precisely why this bottle