Roagna, Barolo Rocca Pira Vintage:2003 (from Caillerets proper)

(from Caillerets proper)

There is first-rate volume to the caressing yet powerful flavors that possess excellent mid-palate density before concluding in a highly energetic

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Published on April 30

Roagna, Barolo Rocca Pira Vintage:2003 (from Caillerets proper)The 2003 Barolo La Rocca e La Pira, from vines between 20 and 50 years of age, is an expressive wine graced with dark cherries, plums, spices, cedar, menthol and minerals in a surprisingly accessible style for this producer. Medium in body, the wine offers superb length and finessed tannins that caress the palate through to the close. This is a little rounder, deeper and also plusher than the decidedly firm and austere Paje, and it is nearly as