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2024 Dolcetto d'Alba, Fontanazza, Marcarini, Piedmont, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Dolcetto
Ready - youthful
Product: 20241265637

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2024 Dolcetto d'Alba, Fontanazza, Marcarini, Piedmont, Italy

Description

While tasting this wine, Andrea mused that in the 1990s, the bulk price for Dolcetto was higher than for Nebbiolo. Today, Dolcetto is fighting to hold on to its hectarage, where Nebbiolo can now be planted. This could be the case here, because the vines are in the cooler corners of La Serra and Brunate, but Manuel has no intention of replanting. The wine is raised only in stainless steel, but has a richer texture than many, testament to the stronger soils on which it is grown. This displays notes of rich plum and a hint of cassis, with a deliciously long finish.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2024
Alcohol % 13%
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Dolcetto
Body Full Bodied
Producer Marcarini

About this wine

Dolcetto d’Alba

Dolcetto d’Alba

Dolcetto d'Alba is a DOC zone producing wines exclusively from the Dolcetto grape. Dolcetto is an important Piedmontese variety that’s suited to the calcareous tufa soils common to Barbaresco. The antithesis of Nebbiolo, it ripens a month earlier, producing wines that are low in acid yet high in tannins. Dolcetto d’Alba is the grape’s most highly-regarded incarnation and makes the perfect antipasti wine.
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