Roagna, Barbaresco Albesani Vintage:2017 the wine is rich

the wine is rich

Here too there is a poached plum character to the slightly fresher nose of earth and soft wood nuances

This too is quite deeply pitched with its ripe aromas of cassis

delivering fantastic intensity with a racy backbone and gorgeous satiny texture

Roagna, Barbaresco Albesani Vintage:2017 the wine is richDrawing its fruit from a leased vineyard in Neive, the Roagna 2014 Barbaresco Albesani opens to a medium ruby color with pretty garnet highlights. The wine is redolent of dark fruit, dried cherry, tilled earth and black licorice. There is much more aromatic intensity here than you might expect given the rather subtle and nuanced appearance the wine makes in the glass. The soils in Albesani are fundamentally calcareous, and these conditions add to the