SERRALUNGA

Welcome to Azienda Agricola Giovanni Rosso. We are a small family-owner producer in heart of the Barolo commune of Serralunga d’Alba. We make only red wines, and our passion is for Barolo and its great grape, Nebbiolo.

Since the 1890’s the Rosso family has farmed vineyards in Serralunga d’Alba, notably the Cru of Cerretta, Serra, Broglio, Meriame, Sorano, Costa Bella, Lirano & Damiano. During the early 1980’s Giovanni rosso restructured the vineyards with the aim of growing the best fruit.

Giovanni’s son, Davide, studied Enology and gained invaluable experience in France. In 2001 Davide, then 27 years old, took charge of the vinification & affinamento/elevage of the wines with one goal in mind: <<Wine should be a perfect copy of its terroir>>. In this case from the slopes of Serralunga d’Alba, among the finest soils in the word.

ETNA

Davide Rosso has been looking for many years for a new terroir where he colud face a new challenge himself.

The side-project was officially born in May 2016 with the purchase of the Etna estate near the village Solicchiata of Castiglione di Sicilia. The farm rises a few kilometers before Passopisciaro down to Montedolce, a small inactive crater that gives the name to the Contrada. We are in the northeast side of the volcano, a perfectly suited area for the production of red wines. The new holdings extend for fourteen hectares in on single plot among which just something more than six hectares in one are dedicated to viticulture: 1.2ha for the whites and 5.5ha for the reds. Carricante and Nerello Mascalese with small percentages of other local grape varieties, as the tradiction requires.