About Giornata Wines
Giornata Wines is the most personally Italian-variety-singularly-obsessed and Paso-Robles-Italian-terroir-philosophically-committed boutique wine appointment in the Central Coast. Brian and Stephanie Terrizzi — whose Italian-American heritage and personal conviction that Paso Robles's warm, calcareous-limestone terrain most closely approximates the growing conditions of Italy's most celebrated Nebbiolo, Barbera, and Aglianico producing regions — established Giornata (Italian for 'a day' or 'a day's work,' the most personally Italian-cultural-labor-celebrating wine name available) as the most individually Italian-variety-committed and Italian-terroir-philosophically-Paso-Robles-specifically-declaring boutique wine appointment on the Central Coast.
The Giornata varietal program — Nebbiolo (Barolo's most structurally age-demanding and most individually Italian-variety-complex grape), Barbera (Piedmont's most food-table-traditionally-Italian variety), Aglianico (Southern Italy's most historically ancient and most powerfully concentrated indigenous variety), and Fiano (Campania's most aromatically distinctive indigenous white variety) — demonstrates what the most individually Italian-variety-specifically-obsessed and Paso-Robles-Italian-terroir-philosophically-committed boutique produces when genuine Italian varietal and terroir knowledge guides every winemaking and sourcing decision.
Wine Advocate has recognized Giornata's Nebbiolo, Barbera, and Aglianico for the individual Paso Robles Italian-variety-terroir character and personally Brian-Terrizzi-Italian-heritage-wine-tradition-connecting quality that distinguishes the most singularly Italian-variety-obsessed and Central-Coast-Italian-terroir-philosophically-committed boutique from the more commercially varietal-predictable Paso Robles wine programs.
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