Giovanni Rosso Roero Arneis 2024 040926OFFER He's also been a longtime

He's also been a longtime champion of Burgundy's so-called lesser terroirs

balancing pear-like fruitiness

both Rioja natives with long careers in the region behind them

At 13 years old

which is what makes this so much fun

Giovanni Rosso Roero Arneis 2024 040926OFFER He's also been a longtimePiedmontese 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