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

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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