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Producer: Roagna, Az. Agr. i Paglieri
Vintage: 2017
Country: Italy
Region: Piemonte
Categorie: red wine
Bottle size: 150 cl.
Ripeness: 2032 - 2062
Taste: trocken
Winestyle: ausdruckstark & fein
Food recommendation: Kalbscarrée mit Fenchel, Tournedos Rossini, Lammkarrée mit Kartoffelgratin, geschmorte Kalbshaxe, Wildschwein Braten mit Polenta, Piemontesische Gerichte
Alcohol content: 13.5 %
Infinitely fine. Chalk and some pencil in the nose, in addition very fine, light red fruits. Raspberry and currant, lots of sweet red cherry, very fine. In addition fine herbs of Provence, some sage, really infinitely chic. And in the mouth we find exactly the same.There is not a hint of green, but there is this intense freshness and this insane playfulness with simultaneous pressure from the high minerality. Salt and chalk alternate, red currant with a touch of raspberry to go with it. Sour cherry, in general a lot of bright red fruit. And all of this with incredible intensity and amazing elegance.
Berry by berry is selected and only those that are in optimal condition are fermented. They ferment for about 10 days in wooden barrels with indigenous yeasts and then remain with the skins for at least two and a half months to extract as many compounds as possible and thus develop a wine with great ageing potential. Finally, the wine matures for five years in neutral oak barrels.
Origin, terroir, authenticity. Everyone is talking about it - Luca Roagna and his family live it. To this end they have drawn up a splendid 10-point manifesto. Because the Roagnas cultivate some of the very best vineyards around Barbaresco and Castiglione di Falletto in Barolo. Some of them since 1880, which is longer than Barbaresco has existed as a wine denomination. Here "Vecchie Vigne" are indeed old vines - up to almost one hundred years old. Pajé, Montefico, Asili, Faset in Barbareso, La Pira, La Rocca in Barolo and, more recently, Albesani e Gallina in Neive are the top sites that make Piedmont lovers' hearts beat faster. The Crichet-Pajé with the distinctive label is the absolute top Barbaresco from the best plots of the Pajé. The name comes from the Piedmontese dialect and means something like "hill of good exposure". It is the heart of the Pajé, only half a hectare in size, facing south-west, open to the Tanaro river, whose radiation mitigates the hot summers and cold winters. Always blown by the wind, and with marl soils with a high calcareous content, it is ideal for elegant nebbiolo. The youngest vines in the Crichet Pajé are 60 years old". These precious vineyards are planted and cultivated organically. No herbicides, no pesticides and no fertilizers. So says the manifesto. And you can see that in the vineyards too. Everything is alive. Especially the beneficial insects: Insects, beetles, caterpillars and, of course, bees do a lot of the "work" naturally. In addition, there is the strict manual selection of physiologically ripe grapes, vineyard by vineyard. In the new cellar there is now also space to develop the individual sites separately. Only with their own yeasts, i.e. "spontaneously", fermentation starts in the large wooden fermentation racks, which allow for good micro-oxidation but do not give off any toasting. Because these are also points of the manifesto. Point 10 reads: "Pure from the terroir without the influence of oak aromas."
Asili has a southwest exposure, the subsoil is white and grey clay and some sand, that makes the elegance.
