2016 | Roagna | Barbaresco Asili Vecchie Viti

Red Wine: 2016 | Roagna | Barbaresco Asili Vecchie Viti

The 2016 vintage will be one to remember with a perfectly balanced growing season that was never too hot. Super silky tannins with aromas of raspberries, cherries and rose petals, a trademark wine from Roagna. The palate boasts an understated finesse, delivering juicy strawberry, cranberry, star anise and an almost salty mineral note framed in taut, fine-grained tannins.

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Producer: Roagna

Ratings: KK | 99  JS | 95

Vintage: 2016

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14%

Varietal: Nebbiolo

Country/Region: Italy, Piedmont

Detailed Description

The 2016 vintage will be one to remember with a perfectly balanced growing season that was never too hot. Super silky tannins with aromas of raspberries, cherries and rose petals, a trademark wine from Roagna. The palate boasts an understated finesse, delivering juicy strawberry, cranberry, star anise and an almost salty mineral note framed in taut, fine-grained tannins.

Reviews:

• Kerin O’Keefe: Enticing scents of fragrant blue flower, perfumed berry, new leather and camphor slowly take shape on this focused, fantastic red. Smooth, elegantly structured and savory, the palate boasts an understated finesse, delivering juicy strawberry, cranberry, star anise and an almost salty mineral note framed in taut, fine-grained tannins. Bright acidity keeps it well-balanced

• James Suckling: Macerated cherry, strawberry and currant flavors are allied to a racy profile and muscular structure here. Focused and persistent, with elements of spice, mineral and savory, vegetal notes adding complexity.

Producer Information

Roagna is a family-owned Piemontese producer based in Barbaresco. It had been producing wine well before its official classification in 1890, and is particularly known for its Barbaresco Crichët Pajé cuvée, one of the highest-priced wines produced in Italy. Roagna owns 12 hectares (30 acres) of vines, including four small plots in the Barbaresco cru vineyards Asili, Carso, Montefico and Pajè, plus 7ha (17 acres) at Pira in Castiglione Falleto, Barolo. In addition, there are several collaborations in place with owners of other prestigious vineyard plots. The portfolio is headed by the Crichët Pajé wine, as well as a Barbaresco Riserva and a range of other single-vineyard Barbaresco wines. Roagna also produces a Barolo from the Pira vineyard, a Dolcetto d’Alba and a Barbera d’Alba, as well as a red and white wine under the Langhe DOC. In the winery, fruit undergoes a long wild yeast fermentation with a submerged cap. Large oak vats are used for barrel-aging as well as fermentation. The Roagna wines are then bottled without fining or filtration.