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2010 Marcarini Dolcetto d'Alba Boschi di Berri
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2010 Marcarini Dolcetto d'Alba Boschi di Berri

Producer: Marcarini
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Dolcetto
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont

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89 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2011

Bright red.  Ripe cherry liqueur aroma accented by an herbal element.  At once creamy in texture and fresh, with good complexity and length.  Ripe tannins give solid structure to this serious dolcetto.  This spend a bit of time in large oak cask.  "The wood gives an integration of tannins through micro-oxidation," explained director Manuel Marchetti.  "On August 10, we thought we wouldn't have a dolcetto harvest," he went on.  "Eventually we picked around September 20, which is very late for dolcetto."

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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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