Tasting Note:
Stunningly elegant. This floats seamlessly across the palate. Beautiful and driven. Such persistence and elegant intensity. Small tight packed, fresh red alpine berry flavours mixed with a mouthwatering sapidity and minerality. Long, focused and haunting. The Paje vineyard is an ampitheatre in the centre of the Barbaresco commune facing south west and planted on limestone soils, sitting just below Rabaja. Vinified for 60 days on the skins before ageing for 5 years in large used wooden tanks.
“Cinnamon, cedar, sweet pipe tobacco and leather are some of the nuances that emerge from the 2014 Barbaresco Pajè. Pliant and open-knit, the 2014 is surprisingly open for a young Roagna Barbaresco, which makes it almost shockingly easy to enjoy even now (in relative terms), in what is the very early going by Roagna standards. Even, so there is plenty of Nebbiolo structure and tannin. Sweet rose petal, mint, tobacco, underbrush, game, and sweet red berry fruit add to the wine's stunning allure". 94+/100 - Antonio Galloni, Vinous