Roero Arneis, Filippo Gallino - 2023

Name: Roero Arneis, Filippo Gallino
Brand: Filippo Gallino
SKU: 30420
Price: 16.96 USD
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Item # 30420 750 mL

The Arneis grape makes a most enjoyable dry white wine. It's redolent of pears, chamomile, and white flowers. It's always enjoyable with light meats, but incredibly well-suited for fish as well. Filippo Gallino winery was the first winery in Piedmont to make a 100% varietal Arneis wine in 1972. From Arneis vines grown on tufo soils. Unoaked.

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Color

White

Vintage

2023

Country

Italy

Region

Piedmont

Producer

Filippo Gallino

Grape Variety

Arneis

Production Methods

Organic

Practicing Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.

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Staff Pick Notes

Today, Roero Arneis is one of Italy’s greatest success stories among the country’s white wines. But no one could have predicted this situation back in the early 1960s, when the Arneis grape was literally a throw away variety, one that had more value as food for birds than as a source of a wonderfully distinct Piemontese white wine. It was often planted between rows of Nebbiolo grapes to attract birds away from the more valuable Nebbiolo berries. Moreover, it translates from local dialect as "Little Rascal", so, nobody wanted to work with it. But in 1967 Currado family started the experiment of vinification of that grape that became the huge success. These days a lot of producers make the wine from this grape and Filippo Gallino is one of the best. His Arneis is the very well balanced, fresh, and citrusy with notes of pear, chamomile

- YS

Pairing Advice

What would a barbecue be without chicken? And all great, crispy, smoky chicken deserves a great bottle by its side. The Arneis grape makes some of the most enjoyable white wines in Piedmont. It’s redolent of pears, chamomile, and white flowers, all of which complement the complex flavors of the grill.

Glossary

Piedmont

The most famous grape in Piedmont is the noble Nebbiolo, which makes the long-lived Barolo and Barbaresco. There are plenty of Nebbiolo-based wines that are quite enjoyable in their youth, however, often produced in smaller, lesser-known regions such as Ghemme or Gattinara. Several other Piedmontese grapes make striking and delicious wines: Pelaverga produces light-colored reds with distinctive notes of strawberry, cherry, and pink peppercorn. The red Freisa is vinified in a variety of styles:...

Arneis

A white grape variety cultivated almost exclusively in Piedmont. Compared to most wine grapes it has a low acid content, and it was once used to soften the mightily tannic red Nebbiolo. It is occasionally called "Barolo Bianco" by acolytes. Unlike red Barolos, however, wines made from the Arneis grape nowadays are usually meant to be consumed while quite young. They are typically dry and exquisitely perfumed.

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