Roagna, Barbaresco Albesani Vintage:2017 citrus confit and subtle spice

citrus confit and subtle spice wisps

(from parcels in Les Renardes

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The palate is smooth and rounded with good weight

Roagna, Barbaresco Albesani Vintage:2017 citrus confit and subtle spiceDrawing 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