Description
The Roagna family has been farming their land and making Barbaresco from it since 1800. The estates contains 15 hectares in some of the most historic vineyards in Barbaresco. The vineyards have been farmed naturally since . . . well, always. The family believes in the concept of treating the vineyard as a “forest” and they allow over 300 different types of grass to grow between the vines together with an assortment of animals that roam through the vineyard to feed naturally.
Luca Roagna is a 5th generation grower, wine-maker and guardian of family tradition; and the family tradition is to make the ultimate in traditionalist Barbaresco wines.
This is a structured Dolcetto that comes from vines planted in the Paje and Carso vineyards in Barbaresco on the Asili hill. The vines are 45 years of age and older and come from soils rich in chalk, limestone and clay. Fermented in large casks with indigenous yeasts and then macerated with a submerged cap for nearly a 100 days.
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