2021 Barbaresco Masseria
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A medium red color, the 2021 Barbaresco Roncaglie is elegant all the way through and is pretty with aromas of wild strawberries, spice, dried flowers, and dusty earth. Medium-bodied, it has fine tannins with good structure, even acidity, and a long, gently tapering finish with a haunting and lasting floral feel. Drink over the coming 15 or more years.
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An overt and multilayered nose with blood-orange juice, cinnamon, earthy strawberries and violets. Full-bodied, it shows bright definition, firm angular tannins and crisp acidity. Still austere in the finish, so try from 2026.
Past vintages of this wine were called Roncaglie Masseria, but the word Masseria has been removed. The Vietti 2021 Barbaresco Roncaglie draws its fruit from inclined vineyards that produce fruit with finesse and elegance. This pretty wine opens to a note of fragrant flower or heritage rose that accompanies you over a long, silky close. In a good vintage like 2021, vintners could push skin macerations a little longer. This wine saw 25 days on the skins compared to 22 days in the 2022 vintage. Vietti recently purchased land in Rabajà, a site that produces profound wines, and this plot in Roncaglie has a greater presence of sand in its soils, creating more floral and delicate expressions instead. This matures in large oak casks for 24 months, and production is 6,066 bottles.