2006 Roagna Barolo Riserva Pira

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 96 points

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  3/13/2024 - kenv Likes this wine: 98 Points

  2006 Barolo (Trattoria One Fifth, NYC.): [Opened around 3pm to check it was sound, so it got just a bit of air.] Stunning nose of black fruit, cloves, and licorice. Sweet red and black fruit in the attack and in the long, complex finish. Expansive and stunningly complex. WOTN.

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  3/12/2024 - Sebran Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Drank blind next to mastroberardino taurasi radici riserva 1998. Very close in terms of quality, but the taurasi had the slight edge in terms of freshness. What this barolo slightly lacked in freshness, it made up with even greater structure and aromatic depth.
  Perfect maturity and balance, no need to wait any longer for this beauty. Drink and enjoy :)

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  11/9/2023 - Jamieson12o Likes this wine: 96 Points

  BBR Piedmont deep dive (BBR): 85-100 yr old vines. Light ruby; almost no garnet whatsoever. Nose is amazing: full of roses and florality. On palate, tannins are almost imperceptible; cherries (almost confected? sweetness from somewhere). This is absolutely brilliant, and so unique/expressive. Not sure I've tasted anything like it!

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  10/20/2023 - Papies wrote: 96 Points

  Annual Pilgrimage to Piedmont - 2023 Edition; 10/20/2023-10/22/2023 (Piedmont, Italy): Decanted for a good hour and then served blind.
  The nose is pretty but the palate of this wine was really singing. We went with Gaja from the 1990s such well developed and elegant the wine was but also with a lot of fruit still around.
  The wine is really the best we have tried from Roagna and came to silence Andreas like a slap from Will Smith as he usually runs away from the pricy hype. This was majestic as a wine, rich and elegant well developed fruit , dark fruite yes but ever so elegant light dark fruit, light tar, no sight of oak ( maybe this should have pushed us away from Gaja but hey blind tasting is a tough mistress) . A superb wine , 96 and with a lot more capacity to develop and gain further.

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  10/17/2023 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Vinous Piedmont Icons Dinner @ Legacy Records (Legacy Records, NYC): The '06 Riserva Pira was a mindblowing wine, especially after tasting the very rustic '96 Pira and '00 Crichet Paje. The generational change here resulted in a massive difference in the style of the wines, and in my view, a huge improvement in quality.
  
  On the nose, the '06 Pira was quite exotic and primary, showing none of the oxidative and more rustic notes of the earlier wines from Roagna. The fruit is super bright and expressive, with hard-candy like red fruits, exotic, blood orange and citrus fruits, spices, and tobacco. On the palate, the '06 Pira is pure silk, with almost no perception of tannin at all, perfectly balanced from end to end.
  
  The '06 is very primary but is also so expressive and finessed today that I can't really imagine it improving, only changing, with more time. That said, the wine should hold for decades in the cellar.

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