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Olek Bondonio
Rosso Giulietta
2024
4.2
Region
Italy › Piedmont › Langhe DOC
Type
red · still
Grapes
Pelaverga Piccolo
Alcohol
13%
Volume
750 mL
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Tasting Notes(1)
4.2
Cornel cherry and Chinese sour cherry on the nose, with wild strawberry sitting beside a dried-herb edge - the kind of perfume that pulled my blind guess straight toward a Langhe Nebbiolo (I was betting Burlotto's freshest release, in fact). Delicate on the palate but with a bloody, ferrous undercurrent, a flash of Sicilian orange, and a tannin that lands dry and harsh, with the variety's directness fully on display. Beautiful, magical, seductive - and a useful reminder that Pelaverga Piccolo can punch well above its usual register when planted in the right soil and farmed by the right hands.
About
Rosso Giulietta is 100% Pelaverga Piccolo from a few rows inside the Roncagliette cru in Barbaresco, planted by Olek's grandfather and reportedly the only Pelaverga Piccolo plantation of note outside its home commune of Verduno; the wine is named for Olek's daughter. The grapes spend a couple of weeks on skins, then rest in tank with a short elevage in neutral barrels before bottling - no new oak in play. 2024 was a warm but very wet growing season in the Langhe, with September rains complicating a tight early-October harvest window and yielding wines that lean fresher and lighter than 2022 or 2023. Expect the variety's signature register - red berries, white pepper and dried herbs, with fine tannins and the directness Pelaverga is built on.
