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Giovanni Rosso

Serralunga d'Alba (CN), Piedmont

On my Top 100 list

Giovanni Rosso is a Serralunga d'Alba estate working Nebbiolo and Barbera from its own vineyards. The Rosso family has owned Cerretta, 3.5 hectares, since 1920, and Serra since 1946.

Vignarionda has the longer story. Tommaso Canale and his wife Esterina bought it in 1934. On April 22, 2011, the original 0.85 hectare plot passed to Azienda Agricola Giovanni Rosso. Ester Canale Rosso owns Vignarionda again, forty years after she was forced to sell. The estate also released Vignarionda Futures, 1,800 bottles of the 2011 vintage sold only to private customers.

In 2016 the family started a second project on Etna. It's fourteen hectares in Solicchiata di Castiglione di Sicilia, planted to Carricante and Nerello Mascarese.

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