Santa & D’Sas …ish Dolcetto 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Santa & D’Sas …ish Dolcetto 2019
$25, 13.8% alcohol, screwcap, King Valley.

This is perfect for drinking right now. At six years of age it has developed into a gentle-but-well-structured wine with tobacco, leather, fresh black cherry and savoury herb notes to the fore. It feels mellow but it also feels as though it has substance, the latter aided by a churn of velvety tannin. This wine will be at its best with food but it has the stuffing to work in any setting. The winery has done the ageing for you; it’s ready to go now. 90 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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