2024 Fletcher Wines 'Cantina della Stazione' Dolcetto d' Alba, Piedmont, Italy Helicon 30% Touriga Nacional

30% Touriga Nacional

Fermentation takes place in small cement tanks and oak barrels without the use of selected yeast

The older wine gives the dried fruit and spicy-nutty flavors

on hard limestone and grey Liassic marls

first racking in summer

2024 Fletcher Wines 'Cantina della Stazione' Dolcetto d' Alba, Piedmont, Italy Helicon 30% Touriga NacionalDave's Dolcetto is drawn from 60 year old vines in the Bricco Capre vineyard of Alba. The sites sandy marl over clay provides both aromatic lift and structural precision, keeping yields naturally low and production capped at just 2,000 bottles. Fermentation is carried out with native yeasts in open vats, with manual pigage for gentle extraction, followed by 8 months of aging in neutral barriques over a decade old. The result is a Dolcetto of