Roagna

Barbaresco, Crichet Paje, 2013

Name: Barbaresco, Crichet Paje
Brand: Roagna
Price: 2170.76 GBP

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2013
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£2,170.76

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Critic Reviews

99/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

I can’t think of a better wine to end this tasting with than with the 2013 Barbaresco Crichët Pajé. Tasted from magnum, the 2013 dazzles with its combination of explosive energy and sheer elegance. Rose petals, cinnamon, crushed rocks, mint and white pepper are some of the many notes that emerge from this wonderfully complex, dynamic Barbaresco. Quite simply, the 2013 is unforgettable.

drinking window 2033 - 2063

date of review 05/2024

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2013 Vintage

Langhe superstar Luca Roagna has cemented his place in the very top echelons of Barolo and Barbaresco production with a breath-taking range of 2013s. Long-awaited and much hyped, as is customary here, the wines were aged in large casks for five years so as to eke out caressing, beautifully constructed tannins and tensile complex fruit. Quality is at an all-time high at Roagna and the 2013s have a chiselled profile married to soaring aromatics and tremendous length of flavour.

These are wines that speak to the Piedmont of old but with a refinement and attention to detail that sets hearts racing in the modern era. Pira is every bit a world-beater and, in keeping with Luca’s strict policy, the minimum vine age for any of his single crus is twenty five years old although in reality they are more often closer to fifty.

Moreover the wines spend around sixty days on the skins to ensure the gentlest possible extraction. Pira is Luca’s home monopole vineyard and it surrounds the winery in Castiglione Falletto. Posited on the same slope as the famed Rocche di Castiglione, just slightly lower in elevation and facing Serralunga d’Alba, Pira has a complex mixture of limestone, sand and blue marl in the soils and a south-easterly exposition, yielding wines of immense detail, freshness and complexity. We re-tasted the 2013 from bottle in the cellar last week and it simply blew us away.

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