Dolcetto d'Alba DOC

Alberto Voerzio

Dolcetto is receiving renewed interest as of late and with good reason. It plays an exciting role in food pairing with its more moderate acidity and intense colour and tannins (a decanter is almost always a friend to this grape). Planted on Alberto's west facing sites where Nebbiolo would have a harder time fully ripening, Dolcetto grown on Barolo's Tortonian soils gives a much more structured and serious expression than one would normally expect. It is nevertheless an awesome wine to dive into young while you wait for Alberto's Barolo's to age. It is nevertheless structured enough to develop nicely over 3-5 years itself! Bright, intense purplish red colour, find notes of blackberry, blueberry, ripe red table grapes, and black cherry. Medium-bodied and well-balanced. A beautiful example of the "little sweetie," as it translates! (This wine is unfined & unfiltered and may therefore throw a natural deposit with age.)

Country:  Italy

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Dolcetto d'Alba DOC

Climate:  Uniquely Piemontese

Altitude:  300 - 450m

Soils:  Totonian soils of blue-grey marl, mixed clay, and very fine sands

Varietal/Blend:  100% Dolcetto

Fermentation:  Fruit is carefully hand sorted. Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeast in temperature controlled stainless steel.

Ageing:  Aged one year in stainless steel. SO2 is added as needed but never exceeds even half of the appellations allowable amount. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered. It may therefore throw a natural deposit as it ages.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic practicing (uncertified) estate vineyards in La Morra village of Barolo, west facing, on Tortonian soils. Farmed entirely by hand by Alberto. Trellised, manual pruning, guyot system leaving 2 buds on the spur and 5-6 buds on the fruiting head. 2x green harvest for concentration before veraison. Yield of only 800g-1kg per plant. Fertilization with strictly natural manure is carried out only after the harvest, before the vines enter vegetative rest. No herbicides are used; the weeds are cut. Harvest is by hand and begins in the last ten days of September. 6500 vines/ha.

ABV:  13.5%

Produced Cases: 

CSPC:  898139

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Alberto Voerzio


La Morra, Barolo, Italy

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Dolcetto d'Alba DOC
Alberto Voerzio

Country:  Italy

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Dolcetto d'Alba DOC

Dolcetto is receiving renewed interest as of late and with good reason. It plays an exciting role in food pairing with its more moderate acidity and intense colour and tannins (a decanter is almost always a friend to this grape). Planted on Alberto's west facing sites where Nebbiolo would have a harder time fully ripening, Dolcetto grown on Barolo's Tortonian soils gives a much more structured and serious expression than one would normally expect. It is nevertheless an awesome wine to dive into young while you wait for Alberto's Barolo's to age. It is nevertheless structured enough to develop nicely over 3-5 years itself! Bright, intense purplish red colour, find notes of blackberry, blueberry, ripe red table grapes, and black cherry. Medium-bodied and well-balanced. A beautiful example of the "little sweetie," as it translates! (This wine is unfined & unfiltered and may therefore throw a natural deposit with age.)

TECHNICAL INFO

Climate:  Uniquely Piemontese

Altitude:  300 - 450m

Soils:  Totonian soils of blue-grey marl, mixed clay, and very fine sands

Varietal/Blend:  100% Dolcetto

Fermentation:  Fruit is carefully hand sorted. Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeast in temperature controlled stainless steel.

Ageing:  Aged one year in stainless steel. SO2 is added as needed but never exceeds even half of the appellations allowable amount. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered. It may therefore throw a natural deposit as it ages.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic practicing (uncertified) estate vineyards in La Morra village of Barolo, west facing, on Tortonian soils. Farmed entirely by hand by Alberto. Trellised, manual pruning, guyot system leaving 2 buds on the spur and 5-6 buds on the fruiting head. 2x green harvest for concentration before veraison. Yield of only 800g-1kg per plant. Fertilization with strictly natural manure is carried out only after the harvest, before the vines enter vegetative rest. No herbicides are used; the weeds are cut. Harvest is by hand and begins in the last ten days of September. 6500 vines/ha.

ABV:  13.5%

Produced Cases: 

CSPC:  898139

Giovanni Autuori
Calgary + Alberta South

T: 403-971-1898

E: giovanni@vinoalvino.ca

Joe Gurba
Edmonton + Alberta North

T: 780-203-5284

E: joeg@vinoalvino.ca

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Dolcetto d'Alba DOC
Alberto Voerzio
Dolcetto is receiving renewed interest as of late and with good reason. It plays an exciting role in food pairing with its more moderate acidity and intense colour and tannins (a decanter is almost always a friend to this grape). Planted on Alberto's west facing sites where Nebbiolo would have a harder time fully ripening, Dolcetto grown on Barolo's Tortonian soils gives a much more structured and serious expression than one would normally expect. It is nevertheless an awesome wine to dive into young while you wait for Alberto's Barolo's to age. It is nevertheless structured enough to develop nicely over 3-5 years itself! Bright, intense purplish red colour, find notes of blackberry, blueberry, ripe red table grapes, and black cherry. Medium-bodied and well-balanced. A beautiful example of the "little sweetie," as it translates! (This wine is unfined & unfiltered and may therefore throw a natural deposit with age.)

TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  Italy

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Dolcetto d'Alba DOC

Climate:  Uniquely Piemontese

Altitude:  300 - 450m

Soils:  Totonian soils of blue-grey marl, mixed clay, and very fine sands

Varietal/Blend:  100% Dolcetto

Fermentation:  Fruit is carefully hand sorted. Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeast in temperature controlled stainless steel.

Ageing:  Aged one year in stainless steel. SO2 is added as needed but never exceeds even half of the appellations allowable amount. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered. It may therefore throw a natural deposit as it ages.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic practicing (uncertified) estate vineyards in La Morra village of Barolo, west facing, on Tortonian soils. Farmed entirely by hand by Alberto. Trellised, manual pruning, guyot system leaving 2 buds on the spur and 5-6 buds on the fruiting head. 2x green harvest for concentration before veraison. Yield of only 800g-1kg per plant. Fertilization with strictly natural manure is carried out only after the harvest, before the vines enter vegetative rest. No herbicides are used; the weeds are cut. Harvest is by hand and begins in the last ten days of September. 6500 vines/ha.

ABV:  13.5%

Produced Cases: 

CSPC:  898139

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