Luigi Giordano Dolcetto d’Alba 2022

Location: Italy, Piedmont

Winemaker: Luigi Giordano

Grapes: Dolcetto

Soil: yellowish-grey, deep Marne di Sant Agata Fossile 

Winemaking: the grapes are destemmed and pressed gently to ensure preservation of aromatics and slow extraction of color. Fermented under temperature control and daily pumpover, the wine spends 7-10 days on the skins and then completes malolactic in stainless steel. 

Dolcetto d’Alba: brilliant purple with a bouquet boasting dusty plum, blueberry preserves, dried violets, with soft tannins. A lovely red for first courses. Serve with a slight chill. 

From the importer The Piedmont Guy: A stone’s throw from Barbaresco’s village centre, the winery and its vineyards were founded by Giovanni Giordano in the 1930s during a time of profound crisis in the Italian wine world. After a period of growing and selling grapes, Giovanni’s son, Luigi, made the bold decision to vinify his own grapes in 1960. Luigi Giordano is now a fourth-generation winery whose vineyards are planted in some of Barbaresco’s most prestigious crus, including Asili and Montestefano. One particular Barbaresco bottling from the cru of Cavanna showcases the winery’s elegant, hands-off style of winemaking and currently represents the only single-vineyard cru of its kind on the market.