Does Rossana drink Franca's (and Pinocchio's) wine?
I hope I'm not being annoying by asking too many questions. In chapter 40 (volume 8), Rosanna recruits Alessandro Ricci (who one day will be Petra's handler) to Public Safety over a bottle of wine, whose label is displayed in the manga: it's Fontana Candida, Frascati, 2004. Fontana Candida owns some land in Frascati, but it also buys grapes from many independent growers in the region (and they are guaranteed to be in the Frascati region due to the Denominazione di Origine Controllata classification).
Back in volume 5, Franca's (Caterina's) vineyard was in Frascati. The year is clear from the magazine Franco is reading, Internazionale dated February 27–March 4, 2004 (you can find the cover and contents online; it's a well-known weekly magazine). That matches Rossana's bottle.
Pinocchio helped grow the grapes, and one of the last things he says to anyone not involved with Padania or SWA is agreeing to come back and sample the wine made from the grape he grew; he will not keep that promise. What are the chances that Rossana was drinking wine made from grapes that Pinocchio grew in Franca's vineyard?
Posted Aug 3, 2025, 8:39 PM UTC