Roagna, Barbaresco Crichet Paje, 2002 Champagne Celebration 2025 but still built for hearty

but still built for hearty food—and even better with a few years in bottle

chiseled frame

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Giuseppe Rinaldi's Tre Tine carries the weight of tradition and real age

ungrafted head-trained vineyard planted in the early 1900s on decomposed granite soils

Roagna, Barbaresco Crichet Paje, 2002 Champagne Celebration 2025 but still built for heartyOne of Roagna's most legendary bottlings, the Crichet Paje, from a celebrated vintage and now deep into a graceful maturity. This is Roagna's flagship Barbaresco, a tiny production single vineyard wine from old vines that the family ages for years in large neutral casks before release a monument to traditional, uncompromising Piedmont winemaking. The 2002 is a back vintage bottle from a private collection, and after two decades it carries the haunting