Roagna - Barbaresco Albesani 2018 (750ml)
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
Round and opulent this red features cherry raspberry rose menthol tobacco and mineral flavors. Dense and firmly structured with superb balance and terrific length. Combines power and finesse. Best from 2026 through 2047. 318 cases made.
Vinous: 94+ Points
The 2018 Barbaresco Albesani is another gorgeous wine from Roagna. Crushed red berry fruit mint tobacco orange peel spice and crushed rocks open nicely with some coaxing. Deep and powerful yet also wonderfully understated the Albesani has a ton to offer. It is also one of the few wines in this vintage here that most certainly needs time. - By Antonio Galloni on September 2023 This is a stellar set of wines from Luca Roagna. The 2018 Barbarescos and Barolos are especially fine. Roagna waited it out choosing to harvest as late as possible in order to ripen the tannins. As a result a number of the wines have distinctly exotic profiles. I tasted the entire range twice and found the wines consistently brilliant. These are wines that benefit considerably from cellaring something I have learned over the two decades-plus I have been buying and drinking them. As has been the case for some time Roagna has reduced the time in wood for the Barolos and Barbarescos preferring more neutral vessels for the final portion of aging. As always low-intervention viticulture and super-traditional methods with ambient fermentations and long time on the skins are cornerstones of the approach here.
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