Vietti Dolcetto, Molettieri Taurasi

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Bill Buitenhuys

Bill Buitenhuys
2005 Vietti Dolcetto d'Alba Tre Vigne (Piedmont) Really refreshing wine. Lots of minty, herbal, red and dark fruits with zingy acidity. This goes down easily.

1996 Salvatore Molettieri Taurasi Cinque Querce (Campania) Last tasted two years ago, this was shut down hard with no aromatics at all. Now it opens with tons of dried roses, fennel, and black cherry. The mid-palate is showing lots of acidity and structure followed by some seriously tongue coating, fine grained chalky tannins. This is really enjoyable now and should evolve over the next 5-10yrs.
 
I appreciate the note on the Molettieri. I've not drank one older than the '99, but it was a gorgeous wine, though very tightly wound. It was likened to a black hole by at least one person present.
 
originally posted by slaton:
I appreciate the note on the Molettieri. I've not drank one older than the '99, but it was a gorgeous wine, though very tightly wound. It was likened to a black hole by at least one person present.
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When I first bought these '96's (in '03?) they were a mass of tar and rubber with barnyard and earth. Really funky, really big. Then almost immediately they clamped down hard which surprised me as this was now 7 or 8 years after vintage. I went through 2 or 3 bottles over the interim that showed nothing at all but now it's really nice.
 
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