Slightly high-toned scents of raspberry

but it is flat-out delicious

At fifteen years of age

My sense is that while this will age effortlessly for decades

yet not soft

Roagna, Barbaresco Albesani other_regions_italy Slightly high-toned scents of raspberryDrawing 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