Roagna Dolcetto d'Alba 2024 no ups The natural oils and flavor

The natural oils and flavor compounds preserved by skipping chill-filtration add texture and depth

100% Sangiovese grapes and aged in old wooden vast

A pristine expression of Chardonnay elegance from Grand Cru villages of the Côte des Blancs

under varying topsoils of clay and sand

This is Barbaresco in its most refined expression

Roagna Dolcetto d'Alba 2024 no ups The natural oils and flavorHere is a small scandal: Roagna grows their Dolcetto in Paj and Asili the same Barbaresco vineyards that produce some of the most coveted Nebbiolo in Piedmont. The vines are 45 years old and older, which tracks, because nobody in the Roagna family has ever pulled out a vine for the crime of being old. And it gets the full serious wine treatment: native yeast, a long submerged cap maceration, then a year in large old casks. The result does not behave