Roagna
Crichët Pajé Barbaresco Nebbiolo
Barbaresco, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy
Begging for the cellar but with decades of evolution ahead. The layered nose was not only intense but lifted and floral, showing cherry, dried leaves, roses, dusty soil, and crushed stone. It was structured on the palate with brilliant cherry fruits, dusty spice and inner floral tones. It filled the senses with masses of refined Nebbiolo perfume and finished fresh with a vibrant thrust of dried cherry and minerals. This wine should make old bones, the only question is how long before its fine-grain tannins begin to soften.
Begging for the cellar but with decades of evolution ahead. The layered nose was not only intense but lifted and floral, showing cherry, dried leaves, roses, dusty soil, and crushed stone. It was structured on the palate with brilliant cherry fruits, dusty spice and inner floral tones. It filled the senses with masses of refined Nebbiolo perfume and finished fresh with a vibrant thrust of dried cherry and minerals. This wine should make old bones, the only question is how long before its fine-grain tannins begin to soften.
May 7th, 20162006 with an incredible elegance and balance, 2005 in a very fast evolution, 2004 classic aromatic for a young Nebbiolo with an incredible complexity and energy!!
2006 with an incredible elegance and balance, 2005 in a very fast evolution, 2004 classic aromatic for a young Nebbiolo with an incredible complexity and energy!!
Oct 18th, 20151998 Roagna Crichet Pajé Barbaresco. Leathery, a bit of rustic olive-laden barnyard brett, but not enough to drag the dinner into the barn; you are...drier than you are sweet, you have a garden with roses in your backyard, you are fresh and alive in your tart cherry vibrancy; you are not greying in the least. You seem a bit volatile at your deepest core; but you leverage that and still manage to be bright and aromatic with acid-laden, cranberry and bruised apple aromas on the finish alongside the roses, leather and tiny allusions to milk chocolate -- and even tinier allusions to eucalyptus. In spite of your bruises, you feel young all the same, with at least half of your life before you, or at the very least you still have many years before you are constrained to a walker or God forbid a wheelchair. Your drying tannins and lively acid are proof of your rustic vitality. And the fact that I purchased you from an unknowing merchant, whose former buyer left 7 yrs ago, for only $81.12, who warned me it "those wines stored up there were tasted recently, and most were bad...I gotta warn you this is probably not good", kind of bolsters my belief in Easter miracles. I gave you a 5% chance of showing well, and you rose on the third day (after buying what should have been your dead corpse).
1998 Roagna Crichet Pajé Barbaresco. Leathery, a bit of rustic olive-laden barnyard brett, but not enough to drag the dinner into the barn; you are...drier than you are sweet, you have a garden with roses in your backyard, you are fresh and alive in your tart cherry vibrancy; you are not greying in the least. You seem a bit volatile at your deepest core; but you leverage that and still manage to be bright and aromatic with acid-laden, cranberry and bruised apple aromas on the finish alongside the roses, leather and tiny allusions to milk chocolate -- and even tinier allusions to eucalyptus. In spite of your bruises, you feel young all the same, with at least half of your life before you, or at the very least you still have many years before you are constrained to a walker or God forbid a wheelchair. Your drying tannins and lively acid are proof of your rustic vitality. And the fact that I purchased you from an unknowing merchant, whose former buyer left 7 yrs ago, for only $81.12, who warned me it "those wines stored up there were tasted recently, and most were bad...I gotta warn you this is probably not good", kind of bolsters my belief in Easter miracles. I gave you a 5% chance of showing well, and you rose on the third day (after buying what should have been your dead corpse).
Apr 5th, 2015
Awesome stuff, but no where near ready, only just beginning to age. Such a classic tar, rose and orange peel nose with mint, massive concentration and a boatload of tannin still there, and acidity, and minerality and fruit and color still there. Excellent, but will become incredible if given enough time i think...1998 vintage.
Awesome stuff, but no where near ready, only just beginning to age. Such a classic tar, rose and orange peel nose with mint, massive concentration and a boatload of tannin still there, and acidity, and minerality and fruit and color still there. Excellent, but will become incredible if given enough time i think...1998 vintage.
Jan 13th, 2015
Ottimo prodotto dal prezzo proibitivo ..
Ottimo prodotto dal prezzo proibitivo ..
Oct 18th, 2013
Years to go but so beautiful now. Double decanted the morning before service.
Years to go but so beautiful now. Double decanted the morning before service.
Feb 8th, 2020
Robe rubis clair
Nez de fruit rouge frais olive noire avec l air des notes plus animales, olives noires et cacaotés
Bouche délicate en attaque avec des notes fraises la charge tannique bien que légère et séchante longuet réduite
Ne mérite pas son prix en l état
Robe rubis clair
Nez de fruit rouge frais olive noire avec l air des notes plus animales, olives noires et cacaotés
Bouche délicate en attaque avec des notes fraises la charge tannique bien que légère et séchante longuet réduite
Ne mérite pas son prix en l état