Roagna 2019 Barbaresco Gallina

One of the estate's newer vineyards starting with the 2014 vintage and a welcome addition to the holdings. Gallina has always been well known for the incredibly elegant wines it produces with its high quality sandy soils intermixed with calcareous marl and open exposures. Fermentation lasts ten days in large wood casks. They ferment with a pied de cuvee made from their indigenous yeasts. They then use the technique of submerged cap ("cappello sommerso") -- which can last 60-70 days. The 2019 Gallina pours a vivid translucent ruby color in the glass, such a pretty wine it jumps onto the scene like rolling out the red carpet. A seductively nimble entrance onto the palate with precocious acidity, licorice and spice linger on the finish. Infanticide? Maybe. Delicious? Beyond belief.

-Ranggy Tapia