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White
750ml
Bottle: $19.94 $21.20
12 bottles: $17.42
Color: Brilliant straw yellow colour with greenish hints. Perfume: The delicate nose is reminiscent of almond...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $39.95 $43.60
A different, fuller-weighted brood, boasting ample stone fruits, nutmeg and truffle. Savvy use of oak (tonneaux and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.60
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.57
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Dolcetto d'Alba is a wine that is characterized by its fragrance and freshness: it has a ruby-red colour with hues of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.93 $18.66
12 bottles: $17.01
A fresh and bright dolcetto with bright cherry and lemon-peel aromas and flavors. Medium body. Crisp finish. Drink now.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $59.93
The salubrious flagship, crafted with a cordon cut technique to concentrate the fruit across a meld of three...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $28.95 $32.00
Vibrant and mineral, it's full of lemongrass, wax, seaweed and lemon candy with a peaty depth and hints of noble rot....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.93
12 bottles: $17.48
Energetic, mid-weighted Soave. Delicious drinking. Prosaic in the best sense, with attractive notes of garden herbs,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $24.90
12 bottles: $24.40
A bright, zesty white, with lively hints of grapefruit zest and milled white pepper accenting peach, lentil and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.94
12 bottles: $28.36
• Practicing Organic. • 100% Dolcetto. • Sourced from a single site in Eola-Amity Hills AVA. • Destemmed,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.90 $20.88
6 bottles: $17.50
Ruby red in colour. On the nose, fragrant, fruity bouquet with hints of flowers. This is a very versatile piedmontese...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
12 bottles: $16.60
This classic Dolcetto has an intense ruby color with violet reflections. The aroma is strong and fruity with notes of...
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750ml
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.70
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A bright young dolcetto with clean, plummy fruit and a characteristic fruit-tea note. Medium body with fresh acidity...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.94
12 bottles: $13.66
• 100% Dolcetto. • From 1.5ha of vines. • Grown in calcareous soils. • Maceration with the skins for 4-5 days...
White
750ml
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12 bottles: $18.56
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.92
Stone fruits and white pepper-laced acidity. Lovely depth. Mid-weighted, highly versatile and saline across a long,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.25 $15.83
Suavia Soave Classico appears bright and lemon-yellow. Fresh aromas of apple, pear and almond balance clean...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $26.35
Red volcanic ferrous soils with ample black basalt strewn amidst. Suits the later ripening Garganega, while screw cap...
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Dolcetto Garganega Mencia Sylvaner

In Italian, Dolcetto means 'little sweet one' – a slightly misleading name, as the black grapes of this varietal have relatively little natural sugar and almost almost produce dry wines. However, the Dolcetto grapes are remarkably popular with those looking for a full, rounded and highly flavorful wine, and are grown extensively in their native Italy, and in many other countries around the world. Dolcetto varietal grapes tend to have quite a high level of tannin, due to their thick, black skins, and low acidity, resulting in interesting wines with a large feel in the mouth, despite being relatively light in body. They are most commonly associated with big, complex flavors such as liquorice and prunes, and are regularly described as having a finish similar to the flavor of bitter almonds.

Italy is a fine country for white grape varietals, and white wines have been produced in this ancient country for thousands of years. One of the more popular varietals in the modern age is Garganega, which is currently the 5th most planted white grape across Italy. This grape is most closely associated with the Veneto region of Italy, although it is also grown in Sicily, where it is known as Grecanico Dorato. Garganega is a rigorous, hardy grape, which can grow in huge yields - explaining its popularity in the past. Today, winemakers must be careful to keep yields as low as possible, as this a varietal which can easily lose its distinctive characteristics and fine qualities when grown in bulk.


We know Garganega most commonly from the Soave wines which have been consistently popular over the past few decades. Indeed, the Soave Classico wines which still sell in large quantities across the globe are made from 70%-100% Garganega varietal grapes, and these wines showcase the varietal’s fresh and delicate qualities. The most common flavors present in Garganega wines are delicate, citrus notes, balanced by a hint of almond, and the best examples have remarkable balance and length, with wonderful aromatic notes.