Roagna Dolcetto d'Alba 2024 NO20230802 and remarkably long

and remarkably long

Bouquet: ripe strawberry

Arnot-Roberts brings their cool-climate

and almost feathery in its delicacy

It'll reward a few years in the cellar

Roagna Dolcetto d'Alba 2024 NO20230802 and remarkably longHere 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