Comments on: An Italian Wine Tasting Of The Dolcetto – Episode #497

By: diana baur

diana baur — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:25:04 +0000

How about some Dolcetto from Dogliani and Ovada?

Dogliani is more or less the washbasin of the Barolo valley (with all of the soil minerals ending up there) and the Dolcetto grown there is far, far, far superior to Alba. Ovada has a completely different character. Dolcetto from Acqui Terme is lighter, but there are several producers which are absolutely upping the class. (Dogliani, Ovada, Acqui, Alba and Asti are the five DOC dolcetto growing regions — with Dogliani and Ovada moving up to DOCG).

To do an appropriately representive flight of Dolcetto, you need one from Ovada and you desperately need one from Dogliani (maybe Chionetti Bricolero 06).

You might also consider St. Ubaldo Dolcetto d’Acqui Superiore (30% oak aged)

I don’t want to be a wise ass but the pronunciation is “dolcetto dalba”, (not dolcetto di-alba), same with d’asti and d’acqui.

I agree mostly with your summation of the wine. It remains undervalued and of course, undermarketed.

By: Dessert Wine Nerd

Dessert Wine Nerd — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:33 +0000

QOTD: Well its not the 4th but the best wine I just had was the Yambula Muscat. Very nice toffee and burnt sugar flavors. Its the only wine Ive had the past few days so no worst wine, thankfully.

By: aida coskun

aida coskun — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:50:40 +0000

hi!!really enjoying wine library tv, from norway.learnig and having fun…great combination:)just exellent!!!keep up the good work:)

By: PSPatrick

PSPatrick — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:46:20 +0000

Hi Gary

As far as I am concerned, I am not happy with the new microphone. The show sounds like a radio feature, not bringing the usual thunder!

By: Cellar Muse

Cellar Muse — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:03:25 +0000

That new wristband is sweet… Are you still looking for pics?

QOTD: Worst: 2005 Placido Chianti – Picked it up on a whim to try and have regretted it ever since… A pretty lousy attempt at Chianti.

Best: 2004 German Riesling (Sorry I don’t have the name right off hand.)

By: MattUD

MattUD — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:41:20 +0000

Interesting show. It seems all the posted may pay off, but I would leave a post regardless!

By: JayZee

JayZee — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:08:57 +0000

QOTD: Okay, you’ve forced me to try to remember what the heck I even DID on 4th of July weekend since I am watching this episode two weeks late. Oh, yeah. Well, the best wine was the 2005 Yves Gangloff La Barbarine Cote Rotie. Awesome! The worst was a 2003 Cline Zinfandel – Ugh!

By: Dan-o

Dan-o — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:38:38 +0000

Good episode! I am a fan of Dolcetto, but I don’t drink it often.
QOTD – Great one.
The Best – 2000 Chateau Fombrauge from St. Emilion (brilliant)
The Worst – 2006 St Francis Chardonnay (my sister brought it over – ugh!)

By: GR8wine

GR8wine — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:12:32 +0000

Nice show Gary,
My impressions of Dolcetto are not all that good but are based on limited sampling. I love Italian wines but the last Dolcetto I had just didn’t impress me. As far as the QOTD, amazingly enough I only had one wine this weekend. This was essentially an all-beer weekend. Buddy of mine retired and a compatriot gave him a keg of home brew as a retirement gift — that was some awesome stuff. Went great with the Cuban style pig they roasted in the back yard and all the different summer salads the wives brought. The one wine I had (which I guess would have to qualify as both the best and worst) was a Prosecco from Italy. Can’t recall the exact label but it went great with all the BBQ leftovers, especially the different salads.

By: yowens

yowens — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:37:19 +0000

Awesome show dude, love shows about wines I known basically nothing about. I feel like I now, without ever having tasted a Dolchetto, have a good sense of what the wine is about. QOTD: tough Q. Best: Bedell Cellars Taste White Worst: Palmer Wines