Roagna, Barbaresco Asili other_regions intense and quite finely structured

intense and quite finely structured

mouth coating and beautifully well-balanced finale

a touch of petrol and yellow flowers on the nose

(from vines that average 50 years of age)

Roagna, Barbaresco Asili other_regions intense and quite finely structuredThe 2004 Barbaresco Asili needs a good twelve hours to open up and find its freshness. Sweet red berries, cinnamon and rose petal are pushed forward. Even with all of the oxygenation, the Asili retains sinewy, pulsating tannins that still need time in bottle to soften. This is a decidedly virile, masculine Asili with bright, salivating acidity and piercing tannins that need time to soften. Like all of the Roagna wines of this era, the 2004 Asili is