Santa d’Sas Ish… Dolcetto 2019

An aged King Valley Dolcetto is not everyday fare, at least not for me. Dolcetto is usually drunk fairly young, made sans oak and designed to be fresh, fruity and delicious, if light red territory drinking. This example underwent a slow ferment followed by a short maturation on lees in concrete tanks. Deep garnet, this is very much from the savoury end of the spectrum. Plums, mulberries, fleshy notes and garden herbs, there is still some pleasing freshness to the wine. There is a line of quite feisty acidity with fine but firm, and even a little sandy, tannins. A wine of medium length, now would seem the ideal time to open this wine, but well cellared examples will more than handle a few more years.