Red
Dolcetto d'Alba
By Renato Corino, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
A Dolcetto from 1 ha in Frazione Annunziata, aged in steel and bottled unfiltered. About 6,000 bottles a year.
Tasting notes
Colour: purple ruby. Nose: complex red fruit, mineral notes, graphite. Palate: rich and pleasant, fresh tannins, almond finish. Full of bright cherry fruit, floral hints and delicate tannins; meant to be drunk within the first few years of release.
Pairs well with
Antipasti and other simple foods, fresh cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Dolcetto d'Alba DOC
- Grape
- Dolcetto 100%
- Production area
- La Morra (Frazione Annunziata)
- Soil
- Limestone and clay
- Exposure
- Southeast
- Harvest
- Hand harvest in September
- Vineyard planting
- 1 ha, 350 to 400 m above sea level; Guyot training; average vine age 30 years; yield 60 q/ha
- Vinification
- Fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel for about a week; malolactic in steel. Aged 10 months in stainless steel, then bottled. No fining or filtration.
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