2024 Olek Bondonio La Berchialla Barbera d'Alba, Piedmont, Italy Marie de Louvoy It was then basket pressed

It was then basket pressed directly to four 16hL concrete eggs for 12 months of aging on the gross lees

Sojeau and X Novo Vineyards

this "Bianco" is part of a newer line of wines from Silvio Messana--featuring his own rather than Montesecondo's name on the differently styled labels--created to allow for some experimentation and expansion beyond the core estate wines

planted on granitic clay-loam soil

Supple tannins and

2024 Olek Bondonio La Berchialla Barbera d'Alba, Piedmont, Italy Marie de Louvoy It was then basket pressedOrganic, some biodynamic practices. 100% Barbera from 40 45 year old vines in the Altavilla vineyard, a prized vineyard in which many of the other icons in the region have Nebbiolo holdings, high in the hills above town of Alba. Fermented in steel tanks with a month on the skins, very lightly pressed in a basket press, then completes malolactic fermentation in steel. Afterward, the wine is moved by gravity into 1600L botti for 8 10 months. Unfined,