Roagna, Barolo Vigna Rionda, 2003 needs photo Tim Smith’s 2023 Shiraz Bugalugs

Tim Smith’s 2023 Shiraz Bugalugs offers a fresh take on a classic Aussie Shiraz

You get the richness you came for

and finished in the cellar with minimal intervention so the vineyards do the talking

The 2012 vintage may not have the flash of surrounding years

25% Chardonnay

Roagna, Barolo Vigna Rionda, 2003 needs photo Tim Smith’s 2023 Shiraz BugalugsA rare crossing of two Piedmont legends: Roagna the cult Barbaresco focused traditionalist making Barolo, from Vigna Rionda, the most coveted cru of Serralunga d'Alba. This was the very first vintage of the project: in 2003 Luca Roagna began buying grapes from an old contadino farming a parcel of white limestone marl planted to ancient vines in Vigna Rionda, a collaboration that ran only through 2006 (around 8,000 bottles per vintage). The 2003 was