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2010 Paitin di Pasquero Elia Dolcetto d'Alba Sori Paitin
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2010 Paitin di Pasquero Elia Dolcetto d'Alba Sori Paitin

Producer: Paitin di Pasquero Elia
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Dolcetto
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont

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87 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2011

High-pitched aromas of black cherry, mint and graphite, complicated by violet and herbal elements.  Juicy and slim, with strong acidity giving cut to the middle palate.  Finishes brisk but lean, even a bit tart, with a note of licorice.  "August of 2010 was too hot for dolcetto," noted Silvano Pasquero-Elia.  "In hot conditions, the dolcetto loses its energy, the leaves turn brown and the maturation stops."

89 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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Italy, like France, offers a world of wine styles within a single country: dry Italian white wines ranging from lively and minerally to powerful and full-bodied; cheap and cheerful Italian red wines in both a cooler, northern style and a richer, warmer southern style; structured, powerful reds capable of long aging in bottle; sparkling wines; sweet wines and dessert wines.
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Dolcetto

With Barbera, Dolcetto is one of the two "everyday" wines of the Piedmont region in Italy. While the most favorable growing sites here are reserved for Barolo and Barbaresco, winemakers plant Dolcetto widely where the temperamental Nebbiolo grape doesn't thrive. As Dolcetto is not made to age, but rather intended for more immediate consumption...
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