Castello di Verduno Pelaverga Basadone 2024 CS20230929 This Falanghina is bright and

This Falanghina is bright and fresh

Named after a 16th-century silver cup in the National Museum of Scotland

Slower ripening means more tension

Aglianico is the great southern Italian red that almost nobody outside Italy talks about

Castello di Verduno Pelaverga Basadone 2024 CS20230929 This Falanghina is bright andIn the 1960s, Verduno's native Pelaverga had dwindled to a literal handful of vines. That it survived at all is thanks to a few stubborn Barolo familiesCastello di Verduno among themwho gave up prime Langhe real estate to keep it going. The reward is one of Piedmont's most charming rarities: a light, peppery red that delivers Nebbiolo like perfume without the weight or the wait. "Basadone" is local dialect for the poppy flowerand, loosely, "lady