Roagna, Barbaresco Albesani Vintage:2017 delivering fantastic intensity with a

delivering fantastic intensity with a racy backbone and gorgeous satiny texture

the wine is rich

In this very warm vintage the winemaking team opted to block most of the malolactic fermentation (70%) to preserve freshness

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

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

Roagna, Barbaresco Albesani Vintage:2017 delivering fantastic intensity with aDrawing 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