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Barbaresco Crichet Pajé, Roagna

1996 · 2011 · 2016
Origin
Barbaresco, Piedmont
Grape
Nebbiolo
Vintages held
1996 · 2011 · 2016
Delivery
Insured and temperature-controlled to Switzerland

Quoted on request. We do not publish prices, and quantities are often one.

A single steep parcel of old vines, fermented for months on the skins and released after a decade in cask. Roagna bottles it only in the best years and in very small numbers.

What the cellar holds

In the cellar: 1996 (two bottles), 2000, 2002, 2008, 2010 (99 points), 2011 (bottles, a twelve-bottle case and a double magnum), 2012 to 2016, the 2016 in its original case of six (100 points), 2019 (99 points), and the complete vertical of 2002 to 2019.

Vintages in the cellar

Not in the cellar at present, sourcing on request: 1978

Every wine of one year, for a birth year or an anniversary: Jahrgangsweine · Millésimes · Annate

Croian & Hein places bottles like this one with a small circle of collectors in Switzerland: discreetly, by appointment, and with the condition of every bottle described plainly before it travels.