Red
Crichët Pajé Riserva
By Roagna, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy
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.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbaresco DOCG Riserva
- Grape
- Nebbiolo
- Cru / vineyard
- Crichet Pajé
- Production area
- Crichet Pajé, the highest part of the Pajè hill, municipality of Barbaresco.
- Soil
- Calcareous marl with a high content of active limestone; Tertiary (Cenozoic) marine sedimentation.
- Vinification
- Made only from old-vine fruit, with submerged-cap maceration of 80 to 90 days and very long ageing in oak, concrete and ceramic, sometimes twice as long as the standard bottling of the same wine. Released 15 to 20 years after the harvest, in very limited quantities of a few hundred bottles; recent vintages carry a black label.
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