2024 Olek Bondonio La Berchialla Barbera d'Alba, Piedmont, Italy Marie de Louvoy The fruit is hand-harvested and

The fruit is hand-harvested and fermented with native yeasts in open-top vats

planted on granitic clay-loam soil

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

A passionate third-generation winemaker

Sojeau and X Novo Vineyards

2024 Olek Bondonio La Berchialla Barbera d'Alba, Piedmont, Italy Marie de Louvoy The fruit is hand-harvested andOrganic, 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,