Olek Bondonio Langhe Rosso Giulietta 2023

Olek Bondonio Langhe Rosso Giulietta 2023
Olek Bondonio has become one of the most sought after names in Barbaresco. He grew up in the family’s farmhouse, ‘La Berchialla’, which sits amongst Barbaresco’s most famous crus and has been in his family for 200 years. He used to visit the farmhouse each summer, studying the vineyard workers with intent. A seed was sown and after conquering Italy as a professional snowboarder, he turned his mind to wine, working in the Langhe and also abroad before returning home to look after the family’s vineyards.

100% Pelaverga - labelled as Rosso due to the fact that the only DOC for Pelaverga in Piedmont requires fruit to come from Verduno.

The majority of the fruit here comes from Olek’s famed Roncagliette vineyard in Barbaresco which is blessed with a southern exposure and firm clay-limestone soils. Fermented in a mix of stainless steel and concrete - on skins for a couple of weeks then a short elevage is done in neutral barrels afterward. Unfined, unfiltered, with moderate amounts of SO2 (10-20ppm max) added just before bottling.