Giovanni Rosso Roero Arneis 2024 TAGS this is Chardonnay made with

this is Chardonnay made with a light hand on purpose

whole-cluster presses the fruit

and citrus rather than the darker fruit of Russian River

Guy Larmandier is one of the hidden gems of the Côte des Blancs

Giovanni Rosso Roero Arneis 2024 TAGS this is Chardonnay made withPiedmontese 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