Prima Materia Dolcetto 2019 061126OFFER yet the complexity is there

yet the complexity is there underneat the forward fruit

you get a third more wine without having to open a second bottle

it's the kind of honest Tuscan red that never made it to the tourist shops

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

The Guinaudeau family runs Chateau Lafleur

Prima Materia Dolcetto 2019 061126OFFER yet the complexity is thereDolcetto'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