These are the words that Carlin Petrini dedicates to Gianni Gallo, not only a designer, engraver and artist of these hills and its wine expressions, but also an attentive man, a connoisseur of these places and its flavors, of its people with whom, throughout his life, he wove relationships of value and growth.
The same ones that allowed Vietti, in the persons of Luciana and Alfredo, to be recognized internationally.
It was the early 1970s when Gianni Gallo created the first labels: for Moscato a bundle of ears of corn and flowers, for Barbera a cricket on a pentagram and a second with the insect hidden among grasses and flowers. And then the representations for Freisa and Barolo crus.
But Gianni Gallo, the Langa recalls, was also and above all a collector of artists and a union of talents. It was a winter evening when at Luciana and Alfredo’s house, Gianni Gallo, Claudio Bonichi and other friends shaped the Etichette d’Autore project. But the story that binds Gianni Gallo to the Vietti brand also includes the ability to resist, as the wines teach. To them the courage to follow and defend an idea despite the fact that, it was the 1970s, a German journalist expressed a negative opinion in finding insects and flowers to dress the bottles.
