Sottimano | Piemonte | Bric Del Salto Dolcetto d’Alba DOC | 2023 | 750ml

Description

Product description for Sottimano Bric Del Salto Dolcetto d’Alba DOC 2023

Andrea Sottimano’s Dolcetto d’Alba Bric del Salto comes from three different old vine vineyards in Neive: Cottà, Basarin, and San Cristoforo. The name Bric del Salto refers to the original small Dolcetto vineyard acquired by the Sottimano family in the 1970s. Fermentation and maceration take place on the skins and typically last 20–25 days. Fermentation occurs spontaneously with its own yeasts, and malolactic fermentation takes place in stainless steel. There, the wine ages on its fine lees for six months before being bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Colour

Rich ruby red with a black core.

Nose

The 2023 Bric del Salto Dolcetto d’Alba from Sottimano is generous and lavish, provocatively tightening its belt further. With exuberant pomp, it fills its fruit basket with black cherries, fully ripe plums, and mulberries. Its immodest appearance is rounded out by tart, spicy accents of black walnuts, cardamom, allspice, and cloves, as well as floral notes of hollyhocks. A complex, high-performance Dolcetto.

Palate

Super juicy on the palate, the Bric del Salto offers a chewy texture with a zesty bite and rich extract. Fine-grained, almost powdery tannins flank the lavish fruit on the tongue and guide the wine into a long, dark-fruity finish. A Dolcetto with rally stripes.

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Wine Advocate

Score: 92

Andrea Sottimano is very pleased with results in 2023. The 2023 Dolcetto d’Alba Bric del Salto sees stainless steel only and 35 days of skin maceration. You get a lighter appearance because Dolcetto loses its color with longer maceration times. But the process does add fragrant aromas of wild berry rose and dried blueberry. Longer maceration times also make this a more integrated wine. The tannins and the acidity feel quite amalgamated. It’s an elegant expression that shows special finesse, especially for the often-rustic Dolcetto grape. “I want to give dignity to this grape,” says Andrea Sottimano. “The more you work in a classical method, the more contemporary the wines become.”
Monica Larner

Vinous

Score: 92

The 2023 Dolcetto d’Alba Bric del Salto jumps out of the glass with an exotic mélange of blueberry, spice, graphite and game. The flavor profile is very much Dolcetto, with just a touch of reduction, but the structural feel is very much Nebbiolo-like. What a jewel of a wine. It spent three weeks on the skins and aging in tank.
— Antonio Galloni
Drinking window: 2024 – 2030
Review date: Oct 2024

Producer website: http://www.sottimano.it/