Barolo del Comune di Barolo DOCG 2020
Roagna | Piedmont
Az. Agr. I Paglieri | Loc. Paglieri 9 | IT 12050 Barbaresco
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912 bottles. That's all the plot has to offer. And sometimes the most precious things are right on the doorstep. Behind the family home, below the Vigna Terlo, opposite Le Coste – romina, Luca's partner, owns seventeen hundred square metres of Nebbiolo there. What began as a family vineyard became the youngest and rarest growth in the Roagna portfolio in 2013: a Barolo from Barolo, from the municipality that gave everything its name. Luca deliberately refrains from using an MGA designation. His Terlo, he says, behaves differently from its neighbours – earthier, more idiosyncratic, less characterised by the finesse that distinguishes Coste and Ravera. However, the cool microclimate of the site gives the wine a beautiful tension and a chalky tannin – and the soil that organic sweetness that reminds critics of redcurrant, iris and damp potting soil.
Light, bright cherry red in the glass. The nose combines crystal-clear red fruit – sour cherry, strawberry, pomegranate – with rose petals and earthy spice notes. On the palate, the ethereal lightness that distinguishes this wine from its more powerful siblings: silky texture, lively acidity, a lingering flavour of iron, tar and menthol. Not a muscleman, but a poet. A Barolo that bears its origins in its name and reveals its beautiful soul in the glass. SUPERIORE.DE
