Roagna, Barbaresco Crichet Paje, 1979 100325OFFER this is settling into its

this is settling into its drinking window — ripe red and dark cherry

where limestone takes over and adds minerality

Compared to his Fleurie

The Bela-Joska vineyard is one of their finest sites

Jacques Seysses left banking in 1967 to found this domaine

Roagna, Barbaresco Crichet Paje, 1979 100325OFFER this is settling into itsA unicorn. Roagna's Crichet Paj is one of Barbaresco's most legendary single parcel bottlings a tiny half hectare selection of the oldest vines within the Paj cru, on a micro particle uniquely rich in white calcareous marl, producing only 2,0003,000 bottles in any given vintage. 1978 was Alfredo Roagna's first commercial release of this wine, making 1979 one of the earliest Crichet Paj bottlings ever to leave the cellar. The Roagnas (now led by