Cornarea, Roero Arneis

Roero Arneis is springtime in a bottle: bursting with bright floral aromas and morning-dew freshness, it’s a perfect choice for right now. But Cornarea does you one better, delivering not just affordable refreshment but refinement and structure, too. As I’ve noted in past offers, not many Italian whites make their way into the Daily Offer rotation, given that they’re typically being evaluated next to heavy-hitter whites from Burgundy, Loire, Austria, Germany, and elsewhere. But if you’re still looking past indigenous Italian whites en route to yet another bottle of Chardonnay, Riesling, or Sauvignon Blanc, you’re missing out. This specialty of the Roero DOCG, just north of Barolo, already has more name recognition than most of Italy’s countless native whites, but taste Cornarea’s 2020 and Arneis will be imprinted in your taste memory permanently. Organically farmed and thrumming with energy, it is a next-level expression of this historic variety and a remarkable value to boot. Load up