Olek Bondonio Langhe 'Rosso Mosca' 2024
Olek Bondonio Langhe 'Rosso Mosca' 2024
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$3999
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$36.99
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Organic, Practicing Biodynamic. 100% Barbera from a young vineyard in the Barbaresco area, intended to be easy drinking and ready before the rest of the Olek's lineup. This is Olek's own Barbera, bottled on it's own for the first time, and labelled as Vino Rosso to not get mixed up with his previous negotiant bottlings. Spontaneously fermented in steel, aged in both steel and old wood, unfined and unfilted, with 20ppm SO2 at bottling.
Olek Bondonio
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Olek Bondonio stands apart from much of the Piedmont scene, especially in Barbaresco. There’s no artifice about at the property, heck, there is no tasting room! Olek works and lives at his family’s 200-year-old farmhouse, La Berchialla, where tradition is still alive and well: the botti for aging wine occupy the ground floor once used for cattle while the family had lived directly above on the next floor. His wines come from three celebrated vineyards, some of which have been in his family for two centuries. One ancestor, General Guglielmo Como, even helped establish Barbaresco’s “Corporate Wine Cellar,” known today as Produttori del Barbaresco.
Despite this pedigree—and holdings that include Roncagliette, right beside Gaja’s legendary Sorì Tildin—Olek’s path to winemaking wasn’t a foregone conclusion. It was his mother who urged him to pursue it: if he wanted to make wine from the family’s vines, she told him, he should. First came years of tending the vineyards and learning their personalities, then in 2005 he vinified his first small vintage.
Twenty years on, Bondonio’s philosophy is unmistakable. He farms without chemicals, incorporates some biodynamic methods, and keeps interventions in the cellar to a minimum. His focus remains squarely on the vineyards themselves—sites he farms personally, and others he has patiently acquired, like Starderi and Altavilla. These parcels often came from elderly villagers who would never sell to outsiders, but trusted Olek enough to pass them on.
Olek Bondonio
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Olek Bondonio stands apart from much of the Piedmont scene, especially in Barbaresco. There’s no artifice about at the property, heck, there is no tasting room! Olek works and lives at his family’s 200-year-old farmhouse, La Berchialla, where tradition is still alive and well: the botti for aging wine occupy the ground floor once used for cattle while the family had lived directly above on the next floor. His wines come from three celebrated vineyards, some of which have been in his family for two centuries. One ancestor, General Guglielmo Como, even helped establish Barbaresco’s “Corporate Wine Cellar,” known today as Produttori del Barbaresco.
Despite this pedigree—and holdings that include Roncagliette, right beside Gaja’s legendary Sorì Tildin—Olek’s path to winemaking wasn’t a foregone conclusion. It was his mother who urged him to pursue it: if he wanted to make wine from the family’s vines, she told him, he should. First came years of tending the vineyards and learning their personalities, then in 2005 he vinified his first small vintage.
Twenty years on, Bondonio’s philosophy is unmistakable. He farms without chemicals, incorporates some biodynamic methods, and keeps interventions in the cellar to a minimum. His focus remains squarely on the vineyards themselves—sites he farms personally, and others he has patiently acquired, like Starderi and Altavilla. These parcels often came from elderly villagers who would never sell to outsiders, but trusted Olek enough to pass them on.
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