Bruno Verdi, Sangue di Giuda "Paradiso" Oltrepo Pavese Rosso Dolce, 2025 Levet and Gerard 2021 Cote Roties classical style here

classical style here

with red-fruit lift and a savory Mediterranean edge that puts most Provençal rosé to shame for character

spending 18 months on the lees

000 years to Roman cultivation

and Produttori del Barbaresco's single-cru Riservas from that year are stuff of cellar legend

Bruno Verdi, Sangue di Giuda "Paradiso" Oltrepo Pavese Rosso Dolce, 2025 Levet and Gerard 2021 Cote Roties classical style hereSangue di Giuda, literally The Blood of Judas, is one of Italy's great fun, oddball wines: a lightly sweet, gently fizzy red from the Oltrepo Pavese in Lombardy, and Bruno Verdi makes a benchmark version. His Paradiso bottling comes from a single named vineyard and blends roughly 65% Croatina, 20% Uva Rara and 15% Barbera. Fermentation is stopped by filtration, leaving it with around 90 grams of sugar and a low 8% alcohol, so it's sweet, frothy and