Prima Materia Dolcetto 2019 061126OFFER The fruit comes off very

The fruit comes off very stony alluvial soils washed down from the Castagniccia schist massif

The Guinaudeau family runs Chateau Lafleur

Alejandro Fernandez — the man widely credited with dragging Ribera del Duero into the modern era — bought this estate near Roa in 1987 as the family's dedicated second home for Tempranillo

42-hectare parcel shines through in wines aged at 40% new oak that capture refined red fruit

the finish is long

Prima Materia Dolcetto 2019 061126OFFER The fruit comes off veryDolcetto's name means little sweet one, which is a lie about the wine and a truth about the grape, which tastes sweet in the vineyard while making a red that is dry, dark and briskly tannic. In Piedmont it is the wine growers drink while waiting for their Barolo. Prima Materia grows it in Lake County, part of a ten acre estate planted mostly to Italian varieties that most California producers wouldn't touch. This is the serious version: picked late