# Pira (Roagna)

> Red, Barolo DOCG by [Roagna](https://ilvinobello.com/wineries/roagna.md), Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy. From Il Vino Bello (https://ilvinobello.com/wines/roagna-pira).

- **Producer:** Roagna
- **Style:** Red
- **Denomination:** Barolo DOCG
- **Grape:** Nebbiolo
- **Cru / vineyard:** Pira
- **Production area:** Municipality of Castiglione Falletto, Pira MGA (a monopole), family-owned since 1989; the most central of the eleven Barolo villages.
- **Soil:** Marine sedimentary soils of the Helvetian era (Tertiary): alternating strata of white limestone, grey marl, blue marl and sand, with a high mineral and iron content.
- **Exposure:** South-east, on the Serralunga and Perno slope; 7 ha under vine, 4 ha of woodland, protected uphill by the Rocche di Castiglione.
- **Vineyard planting:** Vines over 25 years old, exclusively of massal origin, propagated from wood taken when pruning the old Pira vines; oldest plantation from 1937.
- **Vinification:** Each vineyard is picked once the grapes reach full physiological maturity, judged by the ripeness of the pips; harvest is by hand into small crates, and the fruit is given two manual selections before vinification. Fermentation runs about ten days in wooden vats with a pied de cuve of indigenous yeasts, followed by an ancient submerged-cap maceration of about 60 to 70 days, then roughly five years of ageing in neutral oak and concrete vats.
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-25



## Summary

The estate's Barolo from Pira, a historic monopole vineyard in Castiglione Falletto that the family has owned since 1989.