DOCG White

Bruno Giacosa Roero Arneis DOCG

Bruno Giacosa
Grape
Arneis
Denomination
Roero DOCG
Region
Piedmont
ABV
13.5%
Drink
Now to 2028

The white from Piedmont's great Barolo house. Bruno Giacosa helped save Arneis in the late 1960s. Today the estate picks it in five Roero villages and makes it in steel with no oak: peach, acacia and lemon at 13.5%. UK prices from £26.

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2025 · 75cl · checked 12 Oct · Delivery charge shown at checkout

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Where to buy Roero Arneis DOCG Bruno Giacosa

£25.00 best price · 3 retailers in stock · checked 13 Oct 2026

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Tasting Notes

What Bruno Giacosa's Roero Arneis tastes like: peach, acacia and a nutty finish

Giacosa's own sheet says straw-yellow with green glints, acacia flowers, peach and lemon on the nose, and a fresh palate with a savoury edge that gives it length. The notes below say what we find in the glass.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial
Tasted on
2 September 2026
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Typical of Arneis
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Peach, pear and apple lead, then lemon and citrus, then a stony, honeyed note underneath. Acacia flowers and hawthorn blossom sit over the fruit, and Giacosa's own sheet picks out the acacia, the peach and the lemon. The 2024, picked in late September, is on the floral, delicate side.

LemonLemon
AcaciaAcacia
PeachPeach
PearPear
ChamomileChamomile
Wet stonesWet stones
AlmondAlmond
HoneyHoney
Palate

Dry, fresh and medium-bodied, with the soft, rounded acidity that sets Arneis apart from sharper whites. Giacosa ferments and keeps it in steel only, with no malolactic softening and no oak, so the fruit stays clean. The grapes come from vines 23 to 34 years old in five Roero villages: Vezza d'Alba, Monteu Roero, Santo Stefano Roero, Canale and Montà d'Alba. These are the sandy hills across the Tanaro from Barolo.

Finish

Medium-long and gently savoury, with a salty, savoury edge that gives it length. A nutty note and a bitter-almond twist come at the close.

Overall

The white of the Giacosa family, who helped rescue Arneis from near extinction by bottling it commercially in the late 1960s. A well-liked everyday white. Drink the 2024 by 2027 and the 2025 by 2028, with fish, shellfish or Piedmont starters such as vitello tonnato.

Drink now Best by 2028
Live UK pricing

Where to buy Bruno Giacosa Roero Arneis in the UK, and what to pay

Two shops we track sell it. House of Decant has the 2024 at £26 with free UK delivery over £100, and the 2025 at the same price but out of stock. Vino.com has the 2025 on offer at £33, down from £43, shipped from Italy.

Best price · 75 cl £25.00 at XtraWine
Price spread £25.00 - £31.70 Across 3 UK retailers tracked
Retailers tracked 3UK 3 in stock
Vintages live 2025 · 2024 Current release: 2025
Per-litre (75 cl basis) £33.33 Per-litre price for the lowest current offer
Last checked 13 Oct 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

How Giacosa Roero Arneis scores on the Italian Wine Fit Score

Four scores out of ten. Giacosa's Arneis scores highest for food, then as an introduction to Piedmont whites, and moderately for an occasion and for value at £26 and up.

Best with food 8.2/10

Dry, unoaked and medium-bodied with soft acidity: right for fish, shellfish, Piedmont starters, risotto and hard cheese. Wrong for red meat, chilli and puddings.

Best intro to this style 7.4/10

Peach, pear and flowers, no oak and soft acidity make it an easy white to like. The nutty, bitter-almond finish is the one thing that surprises a first-time Arneis drinker.

Best for an occasion 6.2/10

A DOCG white carrying the Bruno Giacosa name, which most people know from Barolo. The 2024 has a 95-point James Suckling score. Good for a dinner with fish; not a grand gift.

Best value 6.0/10

The 2024 costs £26 at House of Decant and the 2025 £33 on offer at Vino.com. The white of a famous Barolo house, well liked by drinkers, with a 95-point James Suckling score for the 2024.

Best everyday bottle 5.2/10

At £26 and up it is a Friday-night white rather than a Tuesday one, though at 13.5% and with no oak it drinks easily.

Best for cellar 3.5/10

Made in steel and bottled a few months after harvest for drinking young. The 2024 is a vintage to enjoy, not to keep. Drink it by 2027 and the 2025 by 2028.

Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Roero in five fields

A compact view of what the Roero denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
2 varieties listed
This bottle: Arneis.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Piedmont
Style
DOCG · Roero
Classification
DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita)
What that means →
Vintages

2024 or 2025 Giacosa Arneis: which to buy

2024 was a wet, slow-ripening year in Roero that gave delicate, moderate-alcohol wines, and Giacosa picked on 24 to 28 September. The 2025 is too young for a verdict, but early drinkers already like it.

2025 Current release
Best price
£25.00
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
13.5%
Window
Drink now through 2028

Vino.com lists the 2025 at 13.5%, made in steel like every vintage. On Vivino it already scores 4.2 from 53 ratings, the highest of any year so far. Arneis is made to drink young: open it by 2028.

2024 Previous release
Best price
£25.99
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
13.5%
Window
Drink now through 2027

2024 brought the rain back to Roero after two dry years: a wet, mild spring, slow ripening and low sugar until late in the season. Giacosa picked its Arneis on 24 to 28 September. The Italian wine site WineMag.it, tasting the 2024s at Grandi Langhe in January 2026, found finesse and moderate alcohol rather than power. It calls this a vintage to enjoy young, not to cellar.

2025 Current release
Best price
£25.00
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
13.5%
Window
Drink now through 2028

Vino.com lists the 2025 at 13.5%, made in steel like every vintage. On Vivino it already scores 4.2 from 53 ratings, the highest of any year so far. Arneis is made to drink young: open it by 2028.

Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.

The disciplinare, the place, the label

Roero Arneis DOCG rules, and Giacosa's part in the grape's revival

Roero Arneis is a DOCG, Italy's top tier, on the left bank of the Tanaro opposite Barolo. Bruno Giacosa was one of the two producers credited with saving the grape in the late 1960s. The estate still makes it the simple way: 100% Arneis, steel only, no oak.

01

DOC, DOCG, IGT: what the badges mean

Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.

Roero is in the DOCG tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. 2 varieties listed in the disciplinare
  • Tasting panel. Mandatory pre-release tasting commission
03

Region and area context

Roero falls within Piedmont.

Roero DOCG zone The producer

Made at Bruno Giacosa, Neive. Directions

04

Reading the label

  • Bruno GiacosaProducer / estate
  • ArneisGrape varieties
  • Roero DOCGGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2025Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 13.5% volAlcohol by volume
05

What sits behind the price of Roero Arneis DOCG Bruno Giacosa

Tracked from
£25.00
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
3 up / 2 down
Main factor
The Giacosa name and nearly 60 years with Arneis
  1. 01

    The Giacosa name and nearly 60 years with Arneis

    Cost up

    This is the white of one of Piedmont's most famous Barolo houses, which bottled Arneis commercially in the late 1960s when almost nobody did. The name carries a premium over an unknown Roero grower's Arneis.

  2. 02

    Grapes from vines 23 to 34 years old in five villages

    Cost up

    Giacosa's sheet lists selected vineyards in Vezza d'Alba, Monteu Roero, Santo Stefano Roero, Canale and Montà d'Alba, with vines 23 to 34 years old. Older vines and selection across five villages cost more per bottle than one high-yielding plot.

  3. 03

    A DOCG white made to drink young

    Cost down

    Four months in steel and a month in bottle, then release in the spring after harvest. No oak to buy and no years of cellar space, which keeps a DOCG white from a great name under £30 in the UK.

  4. 04

    UK duty and VAT on a 13.5% wine

    Cost up

    At 13.5% alcohol UK duty is £3.10 a bottle at the February 2026 rate of £30.62 per litre of pure alcohol, and VAT on House of Decant's £25.99 adds £4.33. About £7.40 of every bottle goes to the Treasury.

  5. 05

    Two online shops, one shipping from Italy

    Cost down

    House of Decant's £26 for the 2024 is the lowest UK price we track, with free delivery over £100. Vino.com's 2025 at £33 on offer ships from Italy, so check delivery charges on a small order.

01

The Giacosa name and nearly 60 years with Arneis

Cost up

This is the white of one of Piedmont's most famous Barolo houses, which bottled Arneis commercially in the late 1960s when almost nobody did. The name carries a premium over an unknown Roero grower's Arneis.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Vitello Tonnato on stoneware bowl with Anchovy, Caper, Egg Yolk

Vitello Tonnato
Agnolotti del Plin on stoneware bowl with Butter, Egg, Egg Pasta Sheets

Agnolotti del Plin
Roast Pheasant, plated

Roast Pheasant
Food Pairing

Fish, starters and risotto: what to eat with Giacosa Roero Arneis

A dry, medium-bodied, unoaked white with soft acidity and a nutty finish wants seafood, light starters, risotto or hard cheese. Shellfish, pasta, mature and hard cheese, lean fish and cured meat all sit well beside it.

Aromatic bridge Strong match

Shellfish and lean fish

The lemon and stony notes in this Arneis do the job of a squeeze of lemon on crab or steamed fish. Its soft acidity never overwhelms delicate flesh. Shellfish is the first match for a Roero Arneis, and lean fish comes close behind.

Try with: Crab · Steamed sea bass · Oysters · Sashimi

Body matching Strong match

Piedmont starters and light pasta

A medium-bodied, unoaked white matches the weight of vitello tonnato, a pea risotto or a pasta frittata without flattening them. Its peach fruit sits happily next to the creamy tuna sauce. A simple pasta works just as well with this Arneis.

Try with: Vitello Tonnato · Risi e bisi · Pumpkin risotto · Frittata di maccheroni · More pairings →

Salt balance Good match

Hard cheese and cured meat

Salt in a hard cheese or cured ham makes the peach and honey notes of this Arneis taste rounder. Its clean, steel-made freshness cuts the fat. Mature and hard cheese and cured meat are both classic plates for a Roero Arneis.

Try with: Frico · Gnocco fritto · Caciocavallo farcito · Cheese board · More pairings →

Acidity matching Good match

Fried and battered fish

Freshness and a nutty, bitter-almond edge scrub the oil from a batter or a tempura coating. The peach fruit softens the salt. A dry white with no oak is the classic match for fried fish.

Try with: Fish and Chips · Prawn Tempura · Tempura · California Roll · More pairings →

Fat cutting Good match

Creamy risotto and cheese sauces

The acidity in this Arneis cuts through butter and melted cheese. Its honeyed, nutty side matches a saffron or truffle risotto. A creamy risotto is the plate we would put beside it.

Try with: Risotto alla Milanese · Gorgonzola, pear, and walnut risotto · Truffle risotto · Fonduta · More pairings →

Avoid Clash

Red meat, fierce chilli and sweet puddings

A delicate, dry white vanishes next to steak or a game stew. Fierce chilli makes its soft acidity taste flat, and a sweet pudding makes it taste sour. Keep it for fish, starters and cheese.

Skip with: Fiorentina steak · Venison Stew · Lamb bhuna · Green curry · Chocolate cake · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

Keeping Giacosa Roero Arneis: two or three years at most

Arneis is made to drink young, and the 2024 is a vintage to enjoy rather than keep. Drink the 2024 by 2027 and the 2025 by 2028.

Drinking window
2026 → 2028

Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.

Decanting
Not needed

Pour it straight from the bottle.

Serving temperature
8-12°C

Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.

Cellar potential
Low

Made in steel and bottled a few months after harvest for drinking young. The 2024 is a vintage to enjoy, not to keep. Drink it by 2027 and the 2025 by 2028.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£25.00 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at XtraWine, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this Bruno Giacosa Roero Arneis page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 13 Oct 2026, 01:39 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Drawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.

Confidence · Medium
Appellation rules & ageing

From the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.

Confidence · High
Why it costs what it costs

Our reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.

Confidence · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

Style guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium
Related

Bruno Giacosa, Arneis and the Roero pages linked to this wine

Producer
Bruno Giacosa Piedmont
Grapes
Arneis
Denomination
Roero DOCG
Region
Piedmont Region guide
Cuisine
Italian Cuisine 2 dishes paired British Cuisine 1 dishes paired

Common Questions

The Bruno Giacosa estate at Neive in Piedmont, famous for its Barolo and Barbaresco and now run by Bruno's daughter Bruna. Bruno Giacosa was one of two producers credited with saving Arneis by bottling it commercially in the late 1960s, when the grape was close to disappearing.

From selected vineyards in five Roero villages, Vezza d'Alba, Monteu Roero, Santo Stefano Roero, Canale and Montà d'Alba, with vines 23 to 34 years old. The Roero hills lie across the Tanaro river from Barolo and Barbaresco, and their sandy soils suit Arneis.

No. It is fermented and kept in stainless steel only, with no oak and no malolactic softening, then bottled in February after the harvest. That is why it tastes of peach, pear, acacia and lemon rather than vanilla or butter.

Peach, pear and apple with acacia blossom and lemon, then a dry, medium-bodied palate with soft acidity, a stony note and a nutty, bitter-almond finish. Peach, pear and apple come first in the glass, then citrus, then minerals and honey.

From £26: the 2024 is £25.99 at House of Decant. Vino.com has the 2025 on offer at £33, down from £43. House of Decant also has the 2025 at £25.99, but it is out of stock.

Shellfish and lean fish, Piedmont starters such as vitello tonnato, risotto, fried fish and hard cheese. Pasta, mature and hard cheese and cured meat work too. Avoid red meat, fierce chilli and sweet puddings.

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