Stefano Porro Dolcetto D'Alba 2024

Stefano Porro Dolcetto d'Alba is a red wine made by Stefano Porro in Piedmont, Italy. It is made from just 7 rows of Dolcetto vines, from a very old vineyard over 65 years old, from which he selects a small part to make the Dolcetto. It is vinified in steel tanks using dry ice during pressing to lower the temperature of the grapes and ensure a slow fermentation that preserves the aromas.Stefano Porro started the project that bears his name with the 2019 vintage from the hectare of vineyard that surrounds the family home in Serralunga. Nephew of Guido Porro, his father had cultivated the vineyard until the eighties of the last century, when a legislative change in Italy made small farms like his father's unviable. For almost four decades, the grapes were sold to cooperatives and the family focused on the agricultural work of the rest of the estates in their heritage.In 2019, an American offered the family to buy that hectare and that was the moment when Stefano declined the offer and convinced himself that he should cultivate it. Just 300 bottles of Barolo from that 2019 vintage, which then became 500 in the 2020 harvest to rise to 700 in the 2021 harvest. The winery now produces a total of about 5,500 bottles a year, of which 2,500 are Langhe Nebbiolo, 1,000 of a Dolcetto and another 1,000 of a Barbera from grapes bought from an uncle who owns a farm in Monforte, which Stefano himself is considering working entirely to be able to increase production to a theoretical maximum of 10,000 bottles.We are, therefore, facing an almost confidential project, which focuses more on quality than quantity, and whose philosophy is fundamentally to make wine of great elegance, with the sapidity expected from the calcareous soils from which the wines come.