Roagna, Barolo Rocca Pira Size:12x750ml raspy and moderately short finish

raspy and moderately short finish

sage and mushrooms on the loose-knit nose

This too is a large-scaled wine that is surprisingly dense in the context of the vintage with beautifully pure fruit

sensual and inviting

Soft reduction shaves the top notes from the nose of mostly white orchard fruit

Roagna, Barolo Rocca Pira Size:12x750ml raspy and moderately short finishThe 2003 Barolo La Rocca e La Pira, from vines between 20 and 50 years of age, is an expressive wine graced with dark cherries, plums, spices, cedar, menthol and minerals in a surprisingly accessible style for this producer. Medium in body, the wine offers superb length and finessed tannins that caress the palate through to the close. This is a little rounder, deeper and also plusher than the decidedly firm and austere Paje, and it is nearly as