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Beltramo's Wines & Spirits
1540 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

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2009 Luigi Einaudi Dolcetto Di Dogliani
[IN-AUDI] Location: Dogliani, Cuneo. Piedmont, Italy. It all began in 1897, when 23-year-old Luigi Einaudi (who was to become Italy's first President in 1948) purchased the first of the Einaudi estates (poderi) at San Giacomo, near Dogliani, heart of Dolcetto country. Today, the President's descendants have chosen to maintain continuity with their extraordinary heritage while looking to the future, turning the oldest wine property in the Dogliani area into a cutting-edge classic. Granddaughter Paola Einaudi, her son Matteo Sardagna, and Giorgio Ruffo - together with technical director Lorenzo Raimondi and winemaker Beppe Caviola - have proven a winning team. They have assembled some of the region's finest vineyard sites under the Einaudi umbrella. Today, the total surface of the property (rather, the properties, i.e. 12 farmsteads) is 321 acres (130 hectares), 124 of which (50 hectares) under vine. The vineyards, in turn, are subdivided into seven terroirs. Four of these are in Dogliani (four hills, one of which is the Vigna Tecc cru, another the premier area of San Luigi). The underground winery, located at Tecc and completed in 1993, was gradually doubled in size and provided with state-of-the-art barrel and barrique cellars, sophisticated humidity and temperature control systems, and a new-generation bottle cellar stocking over 200,000 bottles.

WHAT'S NEW: The former DOC of Dolcetto di Dogliani Superiore (going back to 6/26/1974) has become Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita as of the 2005 vintage. In future, the wine may be called either Dolcetto di Dogliani Superiore DOCG or, more simply, Dogliani DOCG. Einaudi has chosen to bottle its regular Dolcetto di Dogliani as Dolcetto di Dogliani DOC. The crus, on the other hand, are Dogliani Vigna Tecc DOCG and Dogliani I Filari DOCG. Empson USA Inc. Importer
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