Dolcetto d’Alba DOC 2024
Roagna | Piedmont
Az. Agr. I Paglieri | Loc. Paglieri 9 | IT 12050 Barbaresco
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You know that there are no side issues at Roagna. When Luca Roagna, the fifth generation of this legendary Barbaresco dynasty, makes Dolcetto, it is not as a stopgap between the great Nebbiolo, but as a commitment to substance. The grapes come from 45-year-old vines in the prestigious Pajé and Asili vineyards, where the iconic Barbaresco otherwise matures. Pajé, with its calcareous marl soils and high proportion of active limestone, and Asili, with its east-facing clay-limestone soils and distinctive sand content – these are no ordinary Dolcetto terroirs. The vinification follows the Roagna philosophy: ten days of fermentation in large wooden barrels with spontaneous yeasts, followed by 90 to 100 days of maceration on the skins – a maceration period that even many Barolo wines do not see. After around ten months of ageing in wooden and cement barrels, the wine is bottled unfiltered.
The result is not a light-footed antipasti wine, but a structured, serious Dolcetto with dark fruit, firm tannins and that mineral depth that can only come from great vineyards. Cherry and plum, underpinned by spicy notes, carried by a texture reminiscent of Nebbiolo. This is Dolcetto as only Roagna can make it – with the precision and dedication that elsewhere is reserved for the great wines. SUPERIORE.DE
