2024 Cascina Vèngore Arneis 'Sanromè' Terre Alfieri DOCG

100% estate grown Arneis from sandy-marl slopes. Fermented dry in stainless steel with a period on fine lees to build texture and aromatic depth; oak, if used, is neutral and invisible in flavor. 

The 2024 vintage reads clean and seasonable: orchard fruit over citrus, herbal lift over tropicality, mineral finish that resets your palate for the next bite. Serve cool, not cold. Ripe pear and yellow apple, a brush of quince, fennel frond, and white blossom glide into a silken mid-palate shaped by lees. The finish carries almond skin, a polite anise bite, and a salt-tinged mineral snap. It feels like late-afternoon sun through a farmhouse window: warm, clear, and flattering to everything on the table.

Cascina Vèngore farms hillsides in the Terre Alfieri zone east of Alba, where Roero and Monferrato shake hands. The estate’s name comes from a historic borgata and the surrounding amphitheater of vines; vineyards sit on mixed sands and marls shaped by ancient seas and river deposits. Farming here leans low-input and hands-on: careful canopy work to hold acidity, selective picking to keep Arneis lively rather than loose, and a cellar philosophy that prefers clarity over cosmetics.

“Sanrome” is Vèngore’s textural, food-table Arneis. The aim is straightforward and unfussy: harvest ripe, ferment clean, lean on stainless steel and time on lees to build mid-palate without masking the grape’s almond-anise perfume. If there’s oak, it’s the kind of neutral you feel as roundness rather than flavor.