Roero Arneis 2025, Matteo Correggia

Matteo Correggia’s Roero Arneis is bright, polished, and quietly full of personality. This is Arneis in its classic Roero lane: pale straw in the glass, with aromas of apple, pear, apricot, citrus, white flowers, and a little almond-like snap underneath. On the palate, it’s fresh and clean without feeling thin, with orchard fruit, gentle stone fruit, and a lightly savory finish that keeps it from wandering into “just another crisp white” territory. It’s easy to pour, but not boring; a useful trick, honestly. Pair it with seafood, spring vegetables, herby chicken, fresh cheeses, pesto, or a very good sandwich eaten with more seriousness than the sandwich probably expected. About the Winery Matteo Correggia was a true visionary in Roero, Italy. He saw the potential of his land before many others and worked hard to put it on the map. Although Matteo passed away many years ago, his children and widow have taken over the family business, and his son, Giovanni, now runs the show! Roero is a small town to the north of the more famous Piedmont wine regions, Barolo and Barbaresco, but more importantly, it is on the other side of the Po river, and its soils are much younger. Even more importantly, those soils are loaded with sand. And seashells! When you come to the store, ask us about the seashells we saw when we visited this wonderful place in 2013. Sand has a tendency to bring out the aromatics of wine grapes, especially when compared with the clay soils of Barolo and Barbaresco. So even though the grapes grown in this commune are the same ones grown in other parts of northern Italy, their expression is more exuberant, and in our eyes, more enticing!