Olek Bondonio 'Rosso Giulietta' Pelaverga Langhe 2024 no-wrapin

Olek Bondonio 'Rosso Giulietta' Pelaverga Langhe 2024 no-wrapinNamed for his daughter Giulietta, Olek Bondonio has the only plantation of Pelaverga Piccolo, considered the highest quality type of this grape, outside of the commune of Verduno, from where it hails. And this Pelaverga happens to be planted in the very famous Barbaresco Roncagliette vineyard, by his grandfather. (You can see the hill on which Castello di Verduno sits only a stones throw away from this Pelaverga parcel.) This is probably the most

a near-fatal brush with a serial killer

hand-riddled

A beautifully composed Syrah to be opened at the first opportunity

a recently discovered parcel of 140 year-old vines

Post-fermentation

cedar and notes of tobacco

Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon was named for Henry McKenna

and toasted walnuts that linger in the finish

In Lorella Reale and Piero Riccardi's 'collepazzo

but also displaying friendly fruit and the salinity for which the region is noted

nestled between the apple orchards and black & white cows

such as bourbon or rum