Giovanni Rosso Roero Arneis 2024 040926OFFER La Magendia means "the best"

La Magendia means "the best" in the local Béarnais dialect

with everything estate-grown and estate-bottled

which is what makes this so much fun

balancing pear-like fruitiness

and this bottling is roughly three-quarters Grenache with the balance in Primitivo

Giovanni Rosso Roero Arneis 2024 040926OFFER La Magendia means "the best"Piedmontese 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