Red
Dolcetto d'Alba
By Albino Rocca, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy
A youthful Dolcetto with ruby and violet colour and a pleasantly bitter finish, from vines planted between 1960 and 1978.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Dolcetto d'Alba DOC
- Grape
- Dolcetto 100%
- Production area
- Hills of Barbaresco and San Rocco Seno d'Elvio (Alba)
- Soil
- Marly, mostly limestone with thin veins of sand
- Exposure
- East to south-west
- Vineyard planting
- Planted between 1960 and 1978
- Vinification
- A few months in steel tanks
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