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Azienda Agricola Roagna – I Paglieri
Barolo from the Pira vineyard at Castiglione Falletto, which the Roagna family owns on its own. The grapes sit on their skins for over two months, then the wine rests about five years in old casks and concrete. This is the standard Pira.
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Vivino drinkers rate this wine 4.4 out of 5, from 3,362 ratings. Leather and tar come up more often than any other flavour, ahead of cherry and raspberry. This is a savoury red, not a sweet one.
Dried rose and tar come first. Monica Larner reviews Italian wine for the Wine Advocate, and she calls Pira's smell dried rose petals and balsamic herbs. Vivino drinkers name leather and tar 204 times, more than any other note. Under that sit cherry, raspberry and a blood orange lift that the Italian merchant XtraWine picks out too.
Orange
Rose petal
Violet
Cherry
Raspberry
Tobacco
Tar
Leather
LiquoriceFirm and savoury rather than sweet. The grapes stay on their skins for 60 to 70 days here, far longer than most Barolo, and that builds a tannin you feel on your gums. Bright acidity keeps it lively, and a salty thread stretches the wine across the tongue. The York merchant Field and Fawcett found more power in the 2018 than the year had led them to expect.
Long and dry, closing on tar, tobacco and dried herbs. Roagna uses no new oak at all, so nothing sweet or toasty gets in the way.
This is the standard Pira, from the Castiglione Falletto vineyard the Roagna family owns on its own, and not the rarer Vecchie Viti or the black-label Riserva. It averages 4.4 out of 5 on Vivino across 3,362 ratings, and it wants slow-cooked beef beside it rather than a night on its own.
The five shops here run from £109.29 to £220 a bottle. Corney and Barrow's £109.29 is the odd one out. That is a trade price per bottle in a six-bottle case, with UK duty and VAT still to add. The £161.47 at 8wines is a sale price on the 2018. The rest sit at £175 to £220. Check the vintage and check what tax is included before you compare.
This is a wine for someone who already enjoys Barolo. The tannin is firm and the fruit is not sweet, so it makes a hard first Barolo. It is at its best on a table with slow-cooked meat.
Made for keeping. Barolo must age 38 months before release, Roagna gives this about five years, and Vinous puts the 2020 at its best out to 2045.
A single-vineyard Barolo at £175 to £220 in most shops here, from a name Piedmont collectors chase. This is a bottle for a big dinner, not a Tuesday.
Firm tannin and bright acidity make this a strong match for slow-cooked beef, game and aged cheese. It needs food with fat or protein beside it to show well.
It costs about twice what a typical Barolo does in our shops, where the middle price is around £91. Critics rate it near the top of Barolo, so the quality is there, but you pay for one hillside, five years of ageing and heavy demand.
A hard place to start. The tannin is firm and the fruit is not sweet. Vinous called Roagna's 2016s austere and said they are not for the uninitiated. The 2020 is more open, but this is still not a first Barolo.
Not a weeknight bottle at these prices. Even the cheapest offer on this page is over £100, and most shops want £175 or more. It wants a proper meal and an hour of air to show what it can do.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Barolo denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
2016 gave one of Barolo's longest growing seasons and made the sternest wine of the four. 2017 was hot and dry. In 2018 Luca Roagna waited and picked as late as he could. 2020 is the most open of them now. Vinous puts the 2016 at its best from 2026 and the 2020 from 2028.
A warm year in the Langhe, but never a scorching one. A cooler August gave the grapes time to ripen slowly. Vinous found the 2020s more open than Roagna's austere years, and this one had 60 days on the skins. The longest keeper of the four, best from 2028.
An open, forward year. Luca Roagna held on and picked as late as he could to ripen the tannin, and Vinous called the result stellar. The York merchant Field and Fawcett found more power in it than the vintage led them to expect.
A hot, dry year across the Langhe, and Vinous found the 2017s carried less depth than usual. Roagna picked later than most growers, which helped. Ready sooner than the 2016.
2016 gave Barolo one of its longest growing seasons in modern times, with a summer that never turned hot. It is still the sternest of the four years we list. Antonio Galloni of Vinous called Roagna's 2016s potent and austere, and said they need years. Give it until 2026 at the earliest.
A warm year in the Langhe, but never a scorching one. A cooler August gave the grapes time to ripen slowly. Vinous found the 2020s more open than Roagna's austere years, and this one had 60 days on the skins. The longest keeper of the four, best from 2028.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Pira sits in Castiglione Falletto, the village closest to the middle of the Barolo zone. Roagna owns the whole vineyard, which is unusual here. The plot is sheltered above by the Rocche di Castiglione ridge and below by a small wood.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Barolo is in the DOCG tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Barolo falls within Piedmont, covering Cuneo, Langhe: Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Serralunga d'Alba, La Morra, Monforte d'Alba, Novello, Verduno, Grinzane Cavour, Diano d'Alba, Cherasco, Roddi. The denomination is further divided into 11 sub-zones.
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Open the driveMade at Azienda Agricola Roagna – I Paglieri, Barbaresco.
Wine route in the zone: Langhe Nebbiolo Route.
Barolo law asks for 38 months. Roagna keeps this wine about five years in old casks and concrete. The money sits in the cellar far longer than the rules demand, and that cost lands in the price.
Roagna is the only owner of the Pira vineyard, and the plot is hemmed in by the Rocche ridge above and a wood below. There is no second source to top up a short year, so supply is capped by one slope.
Most Barolo sits on its grape skins for two to four weeks. Roagna leaves it there for 60 to 70 days, which holds a vat for months and limits how much wine the cellar can turn out in a year.
Vivino puts the 2014 Pira in the top 1% of all wines on the site, and Vinous rates the 2016 worth keeping to 2041. That international pull sets the price, not the £91 a typical Barolo fetches across our own shops.
The 2020 is 13.5% alcohol, which carries £3.10 of UK duty on a 750ml bottle at 2026 rates, then 20% VAT on top. On a £220 shelf price that is about £40 of tax, leaving roughly £180 for the wine, the shipping and the shop.
Roagna picks into small crates and sorts the bunches by hand twice before anything is crushed, once in the vineyard and once in the cellar. That is a lot of paid hours for a crop off one slope.
Dishes that go with this wine
The Italian merchant Callmewine lists game, red meat stews, roast meat and aged cheese for this wine. All of them give the tannin something to hold on to. Brasato al Barolo, beef braised slowly in the same wine, is the dish the Langhe built for it.
Fat and gelatine from a long braise coat the tongue and take the bite out of tannin, so the meat tastes richer and the wine tastes smoother. Roagna leaves the grapes on their skins for over two months, so there is plenty of tannin to soften. Brasato al Barolo is the Langhe dish built for exactly this.
Try with: Brasato al Barolo · Bollito dei Pastori · Ossobuco alla Milanese · Beef stew · More pairings →
Game is lean and strong-tasting, and it needs a wine of the same weight or it overwhelms the glass. The Italian merchant Callmewine puts game at the top of its list for this bottle. The earthy, savoury side of this Barolo meets it halfway.
Try with: Roast Pheasant · Venison Stew · Sunday Roast Beef · More pairings →
Mushrooms and truffle smell of damp forest floor, and so does this wine after five years in old casks and concrete. Together each one makes the other taste deeper. Roagna sits a few miles from Alba, where the white truffle market is.
Try with: Tajarin al Tartufo · Truffle risotto · Porcini mushroom risotto · Agnolotti del Plin · More pairings →
Fat from a chargrilled steak or a roast coats the mouth, and the acidity in this firm red wipes it clean between bites. That is why a Barolo works on a rib of beef where a soft, jammy red simply sits there.
Try with: Ribeye steak · Lamb shank · Sunday Roast Beef · Fiorentina steak · More pairings →
Aged cheese leaves fat on the palate, and the acidity in this Barolo cuts straight through it. The salt in the cheese makes the tannin feel softer. Callmewine lists aged cheese for this wine, and Piedmont's own Castelmagno is the local answer.
Try with: Cheese board · Castelmagno · Aged Toma · Parmigiano Reggiano · More pairings →
Chilli heat makes a tannic red taste bitter and hot, and 14% alcohol makes that worse. Oily fish turns tannin metallic in the mouth. This wine wants slow, savoury cooking, not spice or seafood.
Skip with: Chicken madras · Szechuan beef · Grilled sardines · Sushi · Pairing guide →
Vinous gives the 2016 a drinking window out to 2041 and the 2020 out to 2045. Roagna already ages the wine about five years before selling it, so a bottle reaches you part way through its life. Lay it on its side somewhere cool and dark.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Made for keeping. Barolo must age 38 months before release, Roagna gives this about five years, and Vinous puts the 2020 at its best out to 2045.
£161.47 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumNo. This is the standard Pira. Vecchie Viti is a separate wine made from the oldest vines in the same plot, and Roagna bottles only about 2,000 to 3,000 of it a year. There is also a Pira Riserva in a black label, which the family holds back and sells 15 to 20 years after the harvest.
Dried rose, tar, cherry and liquorice, with firm tannin and bright acidity. On Vivino it averages 4.4 out of 5 from 3,362 ratings, and drinkers name leather and tar more often than any other flavour. It is savoury first and fruity second.
Both help. Vinous puts the 2020 at its best from 2028 and the 2016 from 2026. Antonio Galloni notes that Roagna's wines open up well with air, so pull the cork an hour or two before you pour a young bottle.
Slow-cooked beef and game. Brasato al Barolo, beef braised in this same wine, is the local dish. The Italian merchant Callmewine lists game, braised red meat, roast and grilled meat, and aged cheese for this bottle.
One hillside, five years of ageing before sale, and buyers all over the world. Most shops on this page charge £175 to £220. Our own Barolo listings have a middle price around £91, so this is roughly twice the going rate.
The 2017 and 2018 are 14% alcohol. The 2020 is 13.5%.
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