Red
Dolcetto d'Alba
By Poderi e Cantine Oddero, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
The estate's Dolcetto d'Alba, from plots in Castiglione Falletto and La Morra, aged in stainless steel and released from early summer.
Tasting notes
Intense ruby red with purple hints, a vinous, sometimes fruity aroma, and a dry, full-bodied taste with a pleasant touch of bitterness.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Dolcetto d'Alba DOC
- Grape
- Dolcetto 100%
- Production area
- Two plots: Castiglione Falletto, sheet 7, sub-plots 57-58 (0.6 ha, 300 m asl, southern exposure, vines 30 years old) and La Morra (Le Ru), plot 21, sub-plot 499 (0.6 ha, 280 m asl, southwestern exposure, vines 40-50 years old).
- Exposure
- Southern (Castiglione Falletto); southwestern (La Morra)
- Harvest
- Mid-September
- Vineyard planting
- 2.7 x 0.8 m spacing, 4,700 vines/ha, Guyot upward-trained vertical-trellised system
- Vinification
- Grapes selected in the vineyard, fermentation and maceration for about 12 days in stainless steel, followed by malolactic fermentation in November. Aged in stainless steel then bottled the following spring, on the market from early summer. 10,000 bottles produced.
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