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Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - Beautiful bright garnet color. Fragrant and alluring nose of red berries, fresh-turned earth and telltale violets. Although I've read dolcetto is not an inherently high acid grape, this makes my mouth water with anticipation, never a bad sign. There's a lightness as well no doubt conferred by the 12.5% alcohol, grazie mille.

Light-to-medium bodied, it dances across the palate and reminds me that I once lost a bet in college because I couldn't believe the word "gavotte" appeared in the song "You're so vain." While it's French, not Italian, gavotte is defined as "lively peasant kissing dance" according to brittanica.com, and I don't think I can do any better than that in describing the impression this makes. Dolcetto in skilled hands can be a sheer delight (it can also be clubbed to death by late picking and over-extraction). But don't take the word peasant literally-at least in this wine there's an edge of refinement and elegance befitting a higher station.

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