Roagna Dolcetto d'Alba 2024 Wine Bar | Featured Red where Balcones Distilling substituted red

where Balcones Distilling substituted red wine and rosé wine yeasts alongside their house malt whisky yeast during fermentation—an unusual move that produces fruity esters more typical of winemaking than whiskey distilling

and their Gruner sees nothing but stainless steel — no oak

this one stays lifted

then foot-trodden — before nine months in neutral French oak

Roagna Dolcetto d'Alba 2024 Wine Bar | Featured Red where Balcones Distilling substituted redHere is a small scandal: Roagna grows their Dolcetto in Paj and Asili the same Barbaresco vineyards that produce some of the most coveted Nebbiolo in Piedmont. The vines are 45 years old and older, which tracks, because nobody in the Roagna family has ever pulled out a vine for the crime of being old. And it gets the full serious wine treatment: native yeast, a long submerged cap maceration, then a year in large old casks. The result does not behave