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G.B. Burlotto Barbera d'Alba 2024

Name: G.B. Burlotto Barbera d'Alba 2024
Brand: Elevage [ELE]
SKU: SF-1-ELE--012226-37
Price: 35.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

$35⁹⁹

From an estate that was bottling Barolo before almost anyone else—and supplying it to the Royal House of Savoy. G.B. Burlotto was formally established in 1850 by Giovan Battista Burlotto, one of the first producers to sell Barolo in bottle. After decades of obscurity following his death in 1927, great-great-grandson Fabio Alessandria has revived the estate as one of Piedmont's most exciting small producers. This Barbera d'Alba comes from young vines (7–20 years old) in Verduno, foot-trodden and aged in well-seasoned botti grandi. Traditional, classicist winemaking from a historic address.

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Antonio Galloni

91 points

"The 2024 Barbera d'Alba is another stellar entry-level wine from Burlotto. Dark red/purplish fruit, lavender, rose petal, sage and mocha caress the palate. Fabio Alessandria did not bottle Aves, his top Barbera; instead, all of the fruit was used for this bottling. As a result, the 2024 is especially strong. Stylistically, there is a touch of new oak from the Aves lots that went into the blend." —Antonio Galloni

More about G.B. Burlotto

Burlotto is the flagship producer from Barolo’s Verduno area. This is a property of enormous historic importance, fabulously delicious wines, and outstanding value.

The Commendatore Giovan Battista Burlotto, one of Barolo's great characters, founded the estate back in 1850. The labels still commemorate the royal house of Savoy’s fondness for Burlotto wines, as well as the winery’s exclusive presence on Duke Luigi Amedeo's 1899 North Pole expedition. The Duke lost two fingers to frostbite, but wrote to the Commendatore a year and a half into the trip that “[t]he wine has been conserved in perfect condition.” G.B. Burlotto was also a pioneer of selling wine in bottle (rather than in cask or demijohn), as well as a champion of a now-rare but still-ravishing grape, Pelaverga Piccolo.

Four generations later, G.B.’s great-great-nephew, Fabio Alessandria, has changed little at the winery, doing some of the crush by foot, fermenting the wine in upright wooden vats, using indigenous yeast and little temperature control. We love these wines for their history, but even more for their diversity, their pure fruit, delicate structure, and signature Verduno floral aromatics and spicy palate.

The family's single-vineyard Barolos, especially the culty Monvigliero, are some of Piedmont's most lauded wines, critical and collector favorites year-in and year-out. But they continue to make extraordinary wines for Piedmont's more humble grapes (including Dolcetto, Barbera and of course, that Pelaverga), wines that don't attempt to turn those grapes into Nebbiolo blockbusters but rather that show their unique charms and terroir transparency. The sheer drinkability of these "lesser" wines is is tremendous, and the pricing for such special bottles from such top-rank grower, is shockingly accessible.