Roero – 2008 & 2007 Riservas

See also my notes on Barolo – 2007s and 2005 Riservas and Barbaresco – 2008s and 2006 Riservas, as well as Jancis's Barolo's impressive 2006s I will also soon be publishing my notes on a superb 2001 retrospective organised as part of Nebbiolo Prima, but in the meantime see Nebbiolo week – a guide for a complete summary of this week's Nebbiolo profusion.

Roero, the first of the Nebbiolos tasted during this year's Nebbiolo Prima (tasters shown here), comes from quite a sizeable area, almost double that of Barolo and Barbaresco put together, but the actual production of Roero is...