Winemaker Notes
Flavors of apricot and orange marmalade are promised by the aroma of the 2017 Dolce and fully realized on the palate. The intense and bright fruitfulness of this vintage also has more subtle notes of butterscotch and baking spices. These lively flavors are carried by Dolce's signature mouth-filling and oily texture, leaving the palate with a watering and satisfying finish!
Blend: 77% Semillon, 23% Sauvignon Blanc
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Deep amber-colored wine with aromas of orange marmalade, apricot tart and honey followed by gingerbread, fruit tea, cardamon and toasted almonds. Very concentrated on the mid-palate with luscious sweetness and mouthwatering acidity that balances out the palate. Enchanting complexity and vitality with layers of exotic spices and flavors. Long and zesty finish. Lots of caramel and oranges. It shows great drinkability but will go much further with age.
Apart from the classics, we find many regional gems of different styles.
Late harvest wines are probably the easiest to understand. Grapes are picked so late that the sugars build up and residual sugar remains after the fermentation process. Ice wine, a style founded in Germany and there referred to as eiswein, is an extreme late harvest wine, produced from grapes frozen on the vine, and pressed while still frozen, resulting in a higher concentration of sugar. It is becoming a specialty of Canada as well, where it takes on the English name of ice wine.
Vin Santo, literally “holy wine,” is a Tuscan sweet wine made from drying the local white grapes Trebbiano Toscano and Malvasia in the winery and not pressing until somewhere between November and March.
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