Roero Arneis

Samuele Bosco is a young vigneron in Priocca, at the eastern edge of the Roero, who separated from a family winery with roots back to 1790 and since 2018 has run his own independent estate under the Bosco Samuele label - about a hectare of vines as of late 2024, per Luciano Pignataro's FIVI report. He bottles under the FIVI independent-winegrowers banner, and the farming is organic in practice though uncertified: no herbicides, no systemic products. The scale is tiny: his own sheets record 2,094 bottles of the 2019 Arneis and 800 of the 2021.

Across its 2019 and 2021 sheets the estate places the Arneis in Priocca at about 275 metres with east exposure, on vines of 20 to 25 years; the 2019 saw a day of cold maceration and soft pressing, the 2021 indigenous yeasts and six months in stainless steel on its lees. The Lithuanian importer's sticker on the 2024 gives a partly different account - 30% direct pressing, six months in concrete tanks, 52-year-old vines - while the Italian merchant Callmewine describes mature parcels, some past fifty years old, and a cellar working with concrete, steel and large wood.

2024 in the Roero was a cool, rain-marked season: a wet winter and late spring, awkward flowering for Arneis, slow veraison and low sugar accumulation, which the Consorzio del Roero and the trade press describe as yielding whites of finesse, aromatic precision and measured alcohol rather than power. The 13.5% here, against the 14.5% of the estate's 2019 and 2021 releases, fits that profile.