Roagna, Barbaresco Albesani other_regions_italy The cherry and plum flavors

The cherry and plum flavors are buried in a dense matrix of tannins

This is at once very fresh and very ripe with its liqueur-like aromas of plum

As is typically the case there is more volume and midpalate concentration to the focused medium-bodied flavors that are shaped by somewhat finer tannins on the lacy and impressively refined finale

A ripe and naturally exotic nose features notes of Asian-style tea

Roagna, Barbaresco Albesani other_regions_italy The cherry and plum flavorsDrawing its fruit from a leased vineyard in Neive, the Roagna 2014 Barbaresco Albesani opens to a medium ruby color with pretty garnet highlights. The wine is redolent of dark fruit, dried cherry, tilled earth and black licorice. There is much more aromatic intensity here than you might expect given the rather subtle and nuanced appearance the wine makes in the glass. The soils in Albesani are fundamentally calcareous, and these conditions add to the