2019 Elio Sandri Dolcetto d'Alba

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  2/26/2024 - JWG wrote: 91 Points

  An excellent expression of Dolcetto. Bright fruit on the nose, with the palate being a bit darker than most Dolcetti, giving the wine more heft than usual. Has a good acidic note, but it is well integrated and not overly bright.

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  11/17/2023 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Elio Sandri Tasting (Freiheit Vinothek, Ulm, Germany): Glass: Riedel Vinum Pinot
  Clear, deep ruby color. Fine, open, deep and floral nose.
  On the palate fine, elegant and juicy, beautiful extract sweetness, pure fruit, good grip and precision. Medium+ length with a fruity-mineral finish. Drinking fun at its best with a safe potential for years.
  Great PQR. 91-92

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  10/22/2022 - forceberry wrote: 92 Points

  100% Dolcetto from vineyards in the Barolo appellation. Fully destemmed, fermented spontaneously in stainless steel and aged in old Slavonian oak botti casks. 13% alcohol.
  
  Youthful, slightly translucent dark cherry red color with a pale red rim. At first the nose is ridiculously reductive with skunky, flatulent notes of reduction, taking actually several hours to clear up. After prolonged aeration, there are aromas of ripe, sweet-toned dark berries and black cherries, some smoky notes of reduction, a little bit of ferrous blood, light blueberry nuances and a succulent hint of plum. The wine is ripe, juicy and silky on the palate with youthful, sunny flavors of dark fruits and red plums, some ferrous notes of blood, a little bit of fresh blueberry, light meaty notes of umami and a hint of smoky reduction. The wine is moderately high in acidity with enjoyably firm and grippy tannins. The finish is juicy, long and rather grippy with intense, sunny flavors of ripe bilberries and dark plums, some funky notes of leather, a little bit of blood, light smoky reductive nuances and a sweet hint of fresh red cherry. The quite modest alcohol remains well-hidden throughout.
  
  A very nice, firm and rather stern Dolcetto that is still very lovely that doesn't really suffer from it, coming across as excessively primary or anything like that. However, the wine does suffer from quite pronounced reduction, making the wine really call for prolonged aeration before it starts to be ready to drink. In our tasting of Piedmontese wines many people simply ignored the wine because it was so badly reductive at first, taking really long to come around. What I really think would be best, though, is to let the wine age in a cellar. It might be quite sunny in character, but not one bit too much, which means this is a great candidate for a Dolcetto that can be aged - and I'm sure that much reduction is going to do nothing but good to the aging potential of this wine. While the 2018 vintage (that we tasted at the same time) was much more open for business, it felt like it wasn't similarly built for aging - and after this 2019 opened up, I preferred it a lot over the softer 2018 vintage. A great purchase at 17€.

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  9/8/2022 - cct wrote: 88 Points

  Dark fruits, tar, some earth, leather, and subtle violets. Mid plus weighted for dolcetto with good balance of acidity with crunchy firm dark fruit. Finishes with fine, firm tannins for dolcetto. I prefer a more playful fresh style of dolcetto, but this is well made in a firmer style and needs a little time to settle down. I would hold this for a couple years before my next bottle. Very good. 88+

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  8/29/2021 - melvinyeowq wrote:

  Dinner at San Shu Gong: Very earthy nose with some barnyard funk and purple fruits. Rather simple and the finish was a little alcoholic, tannins and acidity are not in balance, not quite pleasurable at this stage but some liked this more than I did.

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