Some great producers of Nebbiolo only do an average job with other varieties, but the everyday drinkers from Cavallotto are just as well made as their wines for the cellar. Their single-vineyard Dolcetto d’Alba ‘Vigna Scot’ hails from 30-year-old vines and casting a textbook nose of Dolcetto aromas – black raspberries, red currants, cloves, and cinnamon-scented potpourri – sitting on the ‘tight and bright’ end of the variety's spectrum. On the palate, the wine frames black plums and bright bitter cherry fruit with plentiful fine tannins and savory suggestions of dried herbs, leather, and black pepper. Fresh, laser-focused, appetizingly tannic, and uncomplicated by oak or over-extraction, the this shares the precise yet convivial nature of the Dolcetto wines you would encounter in the Langhe’s classic osterias, but with far more structure and complexity thanks to old vines and the superiority of vineyard site.