1982 Roagna Barbaresco Crichët Pajé

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  2/3/2023 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  La Festa del Barolo: Gala Dinner (The Pool in NYC): Winner winner chicken dinner. This was a night of just incredible wines and yet this one stood out to me. It was great from the first cork pop where the nose just jumped right out of the bottle at you through to drinking a few hours later (had been double decanted and rebottled for the dinner). Darker fruits and light in body and maybe a bit of mint and everything is so well pulled together and it’s just a bit different if that makes any sense. I absolutely love it. This particular bottle had been recorked at the estate in 2010 and we bought it as a wine shop in Piedmont.

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  12/2/2021 - MC2 Wines wrote:

  Return to Piemonte!; 11/25/2021-12/4/2021 (Castello di Sinio, Alba, other various locations): Not a wine that I’ve had a lot of experience with. Some years ago when we hosted a blind barolo tasting one of our friends did some research and found that for old barolo you should be decanting for something in the range of 8 hours. In the last year as we’ve opened some super bottles from the 40’s and 50’s I have followed that advice. Here alas we had just the few hours that we had for dinner and honestly I think we were even a bit faster at dinner than normal so maybe this bottle had 2 hours. Maybe I was kidding myself, but I thought it might be heading in a good direction. If I were to get the wine again I would ask to have it decanted in the morning to see what that does. I don’t think our bottle was corked and in fact it had participated in a recorking in 2010 and the old cork was also attached to the bottle. A very reasonable price for this wine which is always quite pricey, but sadly I’d say the experience didn’t live up to the cost in this case. Preferred the ‘13 Asili Vecchie Viti.

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  2/1/2020 - cct wrote: flawed

  Corked.
  
  I've had this wine twice now and both times corked.

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  2/13/2019 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  Piedmont; 2/11/2019-2/15/2019 (Alba, Italy): At Enoclub. Reconditioned on December 4, 2010. The bottle comes with the original cork attached. It's a really neat touch. This was one of the wines where the treatment is hard to figure out, because we're ordering off a list and we only have two or three hours for the wine to show its best. In this case, it was at its best at the end. There are definitely autumnal qualities here, and to my palate, this wine has seen better days and is unlikely to see more of them. There's a note of balsamic on the nose and palate that never dissipated over the evening, though it did seem to decrease in volume as the fruit picked up with air. Like the others at the table, I enjoyed the palate more than the nose, with its brilliant core of fruit, some tea, some balsamic, and a little bit of rust. While I tried this at a fraction of the current retail prices, even then I wouldn't be racing to add these to my cellar. Nonetheless I have no regrets ordering this off the fine list.

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  4/13/2018 - Markus IWC wrote: 93 Points

  Crichet Paje vertical with jokers, wine #7: still alive and kicking, excellent condition. Mature nose with pickled strawberries, mushroom, forest floor, saddle leather, grass, roses, lavender and hints of creme caramel. Fully mature and smooth soft mouthfeel, silky elegant texture, coffee notes, liqueur, hints of tomato soup. Always a pleasure and interesting to enjoy old wines in mint condition. BV=2, WV=3

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