A fruitier and more primary Barolo, but also nuanced and layered with some strawberries, ripe berries, grapefruit and white pepper notes. Mineral on the palate with fine austerity to the fresh, bright berry fruit. Refined and quite long, yet subtle. Drink now or hold.

The 2018 Barolo San Lorenzo di Verduno has a very pleasing linear quality that is reinforced by red berry aromas, dried blueberry, crushed flint or granite, and a bouquet of fresh blue flowers and violets. The wine is fermented in steel vats and aged in tonneaux. Only 3,300 bottles were produced.

A release of 3,300 bottles, this wine shows a slightly faded ruby appearance that reflects hot-vintage Nebbiolo. The Pelassa 2017 Barolo San Lorenzo di Verduno is balanced in terms of bouquet and mouthfeel, with wild cherry and dried raspberry aromas that cede to smoke, tar and dusty earth. Barolo from Verduno usually shows many blue flower characteristics, but those are reduced in this dry and hot vintage. However, the tannins show extra grip and astringency that is typical of 2017.

The Pelassa 2016 Barolo San Lorenzo di Verduno is a single-vineyard expression from one of the most popular and exciting subzones in the appellation. Verduno is known for its delicate fruit nuances and for the silky and fine sensations that are so carefully revealed in these wines. This expression offers cassis, wild cherry and bitter almond. You also get blue flower and white licorice. The mouthfeel is soft, slender and fragile.

The Pelassa 2015 Barolo San Lorenzo di Verduno shows a candid fruit characteristic with pretty contours of cassis, licorice and blood orange. The wine opens beautifully in the glass, showing an inviting and open personality that is immediately attractive and memorable. This Barolo from Verduno is delicate and nuanced in terms of mouthfeel, with long-lasting and polished endnotes of cassis, cherry, ash and licorice.