Roagna, Barolo Rocca Pira other_regions_italy 7% Petit Verdot

7% Petit Verdot

but it quickly amasses power and momentum on the mid-palate

The 2006 San Leonardo is a masterpiece in the making

This is very firmly constituted and a wine that should really not be touched for at least a decade

Roagna, Barolo Rocca Pira other_regions_italy 7% Petit VerdotThe 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