Roagna

Visits & tastings

Roagna does not offer cellar tours or organised tastings: the family runs every stage of the vineyard and cellar work itself and asks anyone interested in the estate to get in touch directly.

Contact

• +39 0173 635109
• info@roagna.com
• Loc. Paglieri 9, 12050 Barbaresco (CN)

Wines from Roagna

• Albesani: Barbaresco DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. A Barbaresco from the historic Albesani mention in Neive, farmed by the family since 2014.
• Asili Vecchie Viti: Barbaresco DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. Made from the family's old vines in the central part of Asili; bottled as Barbaresco Asili from 2004 to 2006 and as Vecchie Viti since the 2007 vintage.
• Barbaresco: Barbaresco DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. The family's original Barbaresco blend, made mainly from Pajè grapes blended with Asili and Montefico until the second half of the 1990s, before the move to single-vineyard bottlings.
• Barbera d'Alba: Barbera d'Alba DOC, Barbera, Red. A Barbera from vines dating to the 1930s, macerated on skins for 60 to 70 days and aged about five years in neutral wood and concrete.
• Barolo Chinato: Fortified. An aromatized wine made to an old family recipe, based on aged Barolo Pira infused with herbs, barks and flowers steeped in the estate's Grappa di Barolo.
• Barolo Chinato Vecchia Formula: Fortified. A recreation of the estate's early Barolo Chinato: an essential, direct, uncompromising eupeptic liqueur, made without added sugar from aged Barolo Riserva infused with herbs and spices for seven years.
• Comune di Barolo: Barolo DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. A Barolo meant to express the village of Barolo itself, made since 2013 from a family-owned plot in the Terlo geographical mention.
• Crichët Pajé: Barbaresco DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. The result of research by Giovanni Roagna to select this specific terroir, aged longer than the estate's other wines and long kept as the family's personal reserve. Alfredo Roagna first released it to the market in…
• Crichët Pajé Riserva: Barbaresco DOCG Riserva, Nebbiolo, Red. Released after 18 years, a small selection of Crichet Pajé aged for at least another decade in the cellar beyond the estate's already long ageing.
• Dolcetto d'Alba: Dolcetto d'Alba DOC, Dolcetto, Red. A traditional Dolcetto from vines over fifty years old, given a long submerged-cap maceration and a year of ageing in wood and concrete.
• Faset: Barbaresco DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. A Barbaresco from a collaboration in the historic Faset vineyard between 2013 and 2018.
• Gallina: Barbaresco DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. A Barbaresco from the Gallina mention in Neive, giving the wine, in the estate's words, distinct finesse.
• Langhe Bianco: Langhe DOC Bianco, White. A limited-production Langhe white of about 5,000 to 6,000 bottles a year, fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged two years in neutral oak.
• Langhe Rosso: Langhe DOC Rosso, Red. A Langhe red from young, massal-selection vines, given a long submerged-cap maceration and about five years of ageing; roughly 10,000 bottles a year.
• Le Coste: Barolo DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. A single-vintage Barolo (2007) made in a very limited edition from a year-long collaboration with a local winemaker in the historic Le Coste mention.
• Montefico Vecchie Viti: Barbaresco DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. Made from the family's old vines in Montefico, the estate's longest continually vinified vineyard; bottled as Barbaresco Montefico from 2004 to 2006 and as Vecchie Viti since the 2007 vintage, about 1,000 bottles a year.
• Montemarzino: Colli Tortonesi DOC Timorasso, Timorasso, White. The estate's Timorasso from its Colli Tortonesi vineyard, macerated briefly on skins, fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged two years on its lees; the most recently created of Roagna's white wines.
• Opera Prima: Nebbiolo, Red. First made at the end of the 1970s by Alfredo Roagna, Opera Prima blends two to four different Nebbiolo vintages into one wine and carries a Roman numeral for its edition, starting with Opera Prima III.
• Pajè: Barbaresco DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. The estate's Barbaresco from its historic Pajè vineyard in the heart of the village, with fewer than 7,000 bottles made per vintage.
• Pajè Riserva: Barbaresco DOCG Riserva, Nebbiolo, Red. A small selection from old Pajè vines in the heart of the village of Barbaresco, aged for at least another decade in the cellar.
• Pajè Vecchie Viti: Barbaresco DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. A selection of Roagna's oldest vines in the Pajè MGA, produced in a limited quantity of 2,000 to 3,000 bottles a year.
• Pira: Barolo DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. The estate's Barolo from Pira, a historic monopole vineyard in Castiglione Falletto that the family has owned since 1989.
• Pira Riserva: Barolo DOCG Riserva, Nebbiolo, Red. Made exclusively from old Pira vines, given a further ten years of ageing before release.
• Pira Vecchie Viti: Barolo DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. A selection of the estate's oldest vines in its Pira monopole, of which Roagna is the sole owner; about 2,000 to 3,000 bottles a year.
• Rocche di Castiglione: Barolo DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. A Barolo from a historical vineyard above Pira that the family purchased in 2016.
• Solea: White. An age-worthy white made through pre-fermentation oxidation of the must, fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged two years in neutral oak.
• Vigna Rionda: Barolo DOCG, Nebbiolo, Red. Made from 2003 to 2006 in collaboration with grower Tommaso Canale from his plot in the Vigna Rionda cru, about 8,000 bottles a year; the collaboration ended with his death in 2010.