
Dolcetto
Learn about Dolcetto — taste profile, popular regions and more …
An easy drinking red with soft fruity flavors—but catchy tannins, Dolcetto is often enjoyed in its native Piedmont while more serious Barolos and Barbarescos take their time to age. Here, this is the wine you are most likely to find on the table on a casual weekday night, or for apertivo (the canonical Piedmontese pre-dinner appetizer hour). In recent years Dolcetto has found some footing in California, but plantings are fairly limited outside of Italy.
Tasting Notes for Dolcetto
Dolcetto is a dry red wine with a moderate acidity and fairly high tannins. The name translates to “little sweet one,” and though the wines produced are typically not sweet in terms of residual sugar, they are full of juicy red cherry and blueberry, with occasional hints of chocolate and baking spice.
Perfect Food Pairings for Dolcetto
Dolcetto is a lively, exuberant variety and works well paired with tomato-based or pesto pasta dishes, pizza, roasted or cured meat and spanakopita.
Sommelier Secrets for Dolcetto
In most of Piedmont, easy-ripening Dolcetto is relegated to the secondary sites—the best of which are reserved for the king variety: Nebbiolo. However, in the Dogliani zone it is the star of the show, and here it makes a bigger, riper and a more serious style of Dolcetto, many of which can improve with cellar time.
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Francesco Boschis Pianezzo Dolcetto di Dogliani 2013Dolcetto from Piedmont, Italy
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Prunotto Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Paolo Scavino Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Villadoria Furet Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Beni di Batasiolo Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Domenico Clerico Langhe Dolcetto Visadi 2013Dolcetto from Piedmont, Italy
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Luigi Einaudi Dolcetto di Dogliani Vigna Tecc 2013Dolcetto from Dogliani, Piedmont, Italy
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Pio Cesare Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Pecchenino San Luigi Dogliani Dolcetto 2013Dolcetto from Dogliani, Piedmont, Italy
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Ceretto Rossana Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Elio Grasso Dolcetto d'Alba Dei Grassi 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Marchesi di Barolo Madonna del Dono Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Massolino Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Palmina Dolcetto 2013Dolcetto from Santa Barbara, Central Coast, California
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Sandrone Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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E. Pira e Figli Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Luigi Einaudi Dolcetto di Dogliani 2013Dolcetto from Dogliani, Piedmont, Italy
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Brovia Dolcetto d'Alba Vigna Villej 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Pecchenino Siri d'Jermu Dogliani Superiore Dolcetto 2013Dolcetto from Piedmont, Italy
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Bruno Giacosa Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Pecchenino Bricco Botti Dogliani Superiore Dolcetto 2013Dolcetto from Dogliani, Piedmont, Italy
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Renato Ratti Dolcetto d'Alba 2013Dolcetto from Alba, Piedmont, Italy
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Francesco Boschis Vigna dei Prey Dolcetto di Dogliani 2013Dolcetto from Piedmont, Italy
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Marchione Dolcetto 2013Dolcetto from Piedmont, Italy
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Francesco Boschis Sori San Martino Dolcetto di Dogliani 2013Dolcetto from Piedmont, Italy