color: med + intensity, slightly translucent, purple-garnet with fushia miniscus nose: med- intensity, ripe pungent purple/blue fruit with some spice, palate: dry, acid med intensit tannin med+ and chewy, body med+ alc est 14 finish is med+ with earth, plum skin, licorice, herbs ...
style note: Intense ripe black, blue, and purple fruit (plums, boysenberries, black currants) and slight spice on the nose and palate render this a wine to pair with dishes such as char grilled steak. Nice structure and long finish of minerals, and ripe concentrated fruit. Some black licorice.
Denomination Dolcetto d'Alba. Doc.
Description Colour intense ruby red. Fragance concentrated, rich, blackberry, cassis, brushwood, herbal Exposure to the sun South-West .
Vine Dolcetto 100%.
Production area Neive (Cn).
Breeding type Guyot.
Year 2009 Serving temperature 16-18°.
Wine-making Maceration on the skins in steel rotary fermentors at 28-30°C of temperature for 4-5 days, ageing 50% in steel tanks, 50% in Slavonian oak casks.
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11/22/2012 - Gymnvali wrote: 83 Points
Earthy. Peppery. Great with beef stew. Quite dry.
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7/16/2011 - awinestory wrote: 91 Points
color: med + intensity, slightly translucent, purple-garnet with fushia miniscus
nose: med- intensity, ripe pungent purple/blue fruit with some spice,
palate: dry, acid med intensit tannin med+ and chewy, body med+ alc est 14 finish is med+ with earth, plum skin, licorice, herbs ...
style note: Intense ripe black, blue, and purple fruit (plums, boysenberries, black currants) and slight spice on the nose and palate render this a wine to pair with dishes such as char grilled steak. Nice structure and long finish of minerals, and ripe concentrated fruit. Some black licorice.
Denomination Dolcetto d'Alba. Doc.
Description Colour intense ruby red. Fragance concentrated, rich, blackberry, cassis, brushwood, herbal
Exposure to the sun South-West .
Vine Dolcetto 100%.
Production area Neive (Cn).
Breeding type Guyot.
Year 2009
Serving temperature 16-18°.
Wine-making Maceration on the skins in steel rotary fermentors at 28-30°C of temperature for 4-5 days, ageing 50% in steel tanks, 50% in Slavonian oak casks.
Colour Intense ruby red.
Perfume Concentrated, rich, blackberry, cassis, brushwood, herbal.
Taste Warm, soft, full-bodied, quite tannic, good persistence.
Gastronomic combinations Suitable forthe whole meal, pasta dishes, white meat.
Soil Calcareous-Clayey.
Surface 1.20.
Produced bottles n. 10000.
Alcoholic strength 13%. Dry extract g/l : 26. Acidity g/l : 5.2.
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