Alkohol
14.0 % vol
Region
Piedmont
100% Nebbiolo.
Roagna's Barolo Rocche di Castiglione was first bottled in 2016. Since then, the vineyard has produced wines as magnificent as they are diverse, among the most seductive and graceful wines in Piedmont.
Dominated by red fruit, cherry, strawberries, and even a hint of red currant float from the glass. Added to this is the subtle salty aroma of iodine, which transitions into nutmeg and white pepper, with delicate rose petals and dried potpourri also present. With a few more years in the bottle, it will undoubtedly gain considerable complexity. A textbook Barolo.
Unfortunately, it's extremely rare. Like most Roagna wines, fewer than 3,000 bottles are produced each year.
Abgefüllt durch
Roagna
Roagna, Locality Paglieri, 9, 12050 Barbaresco CN, ITALY
Winzer
Roagna
Roagna is located directly in Barbaresco. Luca runs the family winery with his father.
Only 12 hectares are cultivated with the utmost care and work is done in the traditional style. Luca vinifies his wines reductively, meaning almost excluding oxygen. He does this traditionally in large wooden barrels that are five times thicker than a classic barrique, thus allowing hardly any oxygen exchange through the wood pores. In addition, he ages his wines on the fine lees, which is like a youth serum. Similar to the aging of classic champagne, the wines age on the lees very, very slowly. This means the wines need significantly more time to blossom. With the greatest effort, the small operation achieves the masterful performance of marketing the wines as late as possible.
As a result, Barolo and Barbaresco usually appear on average a vintage later than many other producers. The vines are up to 80 years old.
The focus is clearly on Barbaresco, alongside some Barolo. Very exciting is also the Langhe Bianco Solea, a cuvée of Chardonnay and white-pressed Nebbiolo. A wine that, like the reds, lives from its structure.
