To Those Who Wait
An Invitation to the Trinity of Devotion
Dear Reader,
We live in an age that confuses access with meaning and speed with success. We have turned patience—the rarest human capacity—into an inconvenience to be engineered away.
Barolo is the quiet resistance to that world.
When you stand in the Langhe hills at dawn, the fog (the nebbia) does not vanish all at once. It reveals slowly. It asks a question: Can you trust what you cannot see?.
This publication is a meditation on that trust, told through the Trinity of Devotion—the three custodians who guard the soul of this place:
The Vignaiolo: The winemaker who reads weather like scripture and knows that Nebbiolo is a grape that demands more attention than affection.
The Nonna: The grandmother whose kitchen is a cathedral and whose hands remember the rhythm of a hundred generations.
The Trifolau: The truffle hunter who walks in darkness, trusting a dog and a forest’s ancient, invisible logic.
These are not just practitioners of a craft; they are keepers of the same truth: that what endures cannot be rushed.
I invite you to join me here as I write my upcoming book, The Sweet Spot of Time. We will walk through vineyards where soil has been waiting for eleven million years, sit at tables where Sunday lunch is a sacred hours-long ritual, and learn to see the world not in seconds, but in seasons.
Welcome to the sweet spot. Welcome to the fog.
With pazienza,
// Arnt
