Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

What a delicious moderately priced red wine! I love Piedmont! Dark red- black in color, with a nice nose of blackberry and the Dolcetto cherry. On the palette-leather, tobacco, awesome blackberry and black cherry. At $17, this is a great wine! ****

(It makes up for another wine at the tasting, a unremarked Chianti Ruffino that tasted like a California vanilla milkshake)

[James Roscoe]

Dolcetto's are always good. Better with food too!

I think I'm going to bring a Dolcetto as a ringer to a wine party this weekend!

Brian
Ta for this. In general I've been very impressed with Prunotto's wines tasted over the last couple of years. I think they've got a great range at realistic prices and the Nebbiolo and Barbera wines are well worth trying.
regards
Ian

Dolcetto's are always good. Better with food too!

I wouldn't go that far. I've had one or two I'd prefer to never taste again.

??? Warn me away from them, please

They can't be as bad as the appalling vanilla milkshake (2003, of course) las tnight labelled as a Chianti Ruffino Riserva. I wish In remembered the name.

I have to remember to shut up. The shop owners are newcomers to wine, I think, and I shouldn't insult them.

It has been a while.

We lived in Italy back in 1988-1989. On our way out of the country, we stopped in the Piedmont, and had our first Dolcetto.

Loved it.

Back in the USA, we looked for more, and were mightily disappointed, both in that few were available, and that those that were bore no resemblance to the "common local wine" we drink in Alba. But that's been nearly twenty years. No reason to think bad ones or those which don't travel well are being imported now.

Is there?

[James Roscoe]

This is interesting. All the Dolcettos I've had (and they can be numbered on one hand) have been uniformly good and especialy good with food.

What a delicious moderately priced red wine! I love Piedmont! Dark red- black in color, with a nice nose of blackberry and the Dolcetto cherry. On the palette-leather, tobacco, awesome blackberry and black cherry. At $17, this is a great wine! ****

(It makes up for another wine at the tasting, a unremarked Chianti Ruffino that tasted like a California vanilla milkshake)

I should try another Dolcetto - the ones I've had were not all that exciting to me. The last Prunotto Barbera I had was so extracted and international in style - I wonder if they have chilled out by now. Now that I think of it, I did enjoy a Pio Cesare's Dolcetto about a year ago.

Brian, the vintage of your Prunotto DDA is........?

Sorry 2005, I believe.

I'm not sure I totally recognize "International Style."

To me, the Dolcetto had the dark, savory leatheriness combined very noticeably with that certain acidic edge that I seem to find in a lot of Italian wines-almost uniquely so. In my limited tastings, I've found sometimes some of these notes in other countries' wines (some, but not many Napa cabs, for instance), but Italian wines seem to combine them in a unique way. Across terroirs, too-although a Dolcetto tastes nothing like a Chianti tastes nothing like a Salento, I can recognize both as Italian somehow. Stereotyping? Could I do it blind?

I've had a few Chiantis that I would call "International" in a bad way.