I wanted to check out a Dolcetto as part of my quest to find ideal after-dinner wines, since the description of the grape made it sound ideal. This particular one was recommended to my by my local wine shop
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Wine is an astonishingly vibrant purple - so vivid in fact that it hardly deserves to be called a "red" wine at all!
Aroma is not terribly forthcoming. What there is reminds me of glace cherries - a little cherry, a lot of almond essence.
Flavour on the palate is equally subtle - it took quite a lot of air exposure for the tastes to really start to develop. When they came through the notes were still subdued but dominated by fruity cherry and almond with a little blackcurrant and some oak character. The wine is velvety and extremely smooth, light in both tannin and acid.
Between the light structure and the recalcitrant flavour, you might uncharitably describe this wine as "bland", or charitably as "elegant". I lean toward the latter.
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) from our recent holiday in Piemonte, though most will be simple impressions or recollections. Some Dolcetto's, Barbera's and Nebbiolo's.