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Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by Brian K Miller » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:18 am

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)
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Re: Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by James Roscoe » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:02 am

Dolcetto's are always good. Better with food too!
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Re: Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by Brian K Miller » Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:43 pm

I think I'm going to bring a Dolcetto as a ringer to a wine party this weekend!
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Re: Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by Ian Sutton » Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:06 pm

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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.
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Re: Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by Isaac » Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:31 pm

James Roscoe wrote: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.
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Re: Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by Brian K Miller » Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:36 pm

??? Warn me away from them, please :lol:

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. :oops:
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Re: Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by Isaac » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:26 pm

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.

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Re: Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by James Roscoe » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:32 pm

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.
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
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Re: Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by Paulo in Philly » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:57 pm

Brian K Miller wrote: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.
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Re: Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by Clint Hall » Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:05 am

Brian, the vintage of your Prunotto DDA is........?
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Re: Prunotto Dolcetto D'Alba-Great QPR

by Brian K Miller » Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:39 am

Sorry :oops: 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.
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