2016 Dolcetto VJB Vineyard & Cellars
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Dolcetto 2016

a Dolcetto from Sonoma Valley • CA
by VJB Cellars
$42 per bottle

With only 112 documented acres in California, our Dolcetto is a unique treat! Dolcetto translates to “little sweet one,” but it is anything but sweet. It is medium in body with dried cherry and cranberry up front. Finishes dry with just a hint of minerality. Pairing: All tomato based pasta sauces.

Composition

100% Dolcetto

Alc. %

14.5%
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Closure Natural
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VJB Cellars

For so many Italian families, traditions are important. For the Belmonte family, the owners of VJB Cellars, that’s most certainly true, and it’s those treasured traditions combined with the relaxed California lifestyle they’ve come to love that they share with guests to their winery since 2003.

The seeds of owning a winery were sown in the late 1990s when the family owned Caffe Portofino, a popular restaurant in downtown Santa Rosa. Patrons loved Maria Belmonte’s food and chatting with Vittorio and his sons Henry and Victor who ran the front of the house. As Henry and Victor watched diners enjoy wine with their meals they had an idea to start making their own wine to sell at the restaurant.

The brothers made their first harvest of Cabernet grapes in 1999, but before that wine was ever bottled, Victor passed away unexpectedly. Though filled with grief, Henry, along with his parents, was determined to keep his younger brother’s memory and passion for making wine alive. VJB Vineyards and Cellars—named for Victor Joseph Belmonte— was born.

In 2002, the Belmonte’s sold their restaurant and began renovating an old home and garden store on Highway 12 in Kenwood. They opened this tasting room on Memorial Day weekend in 2003. There were five wines on the wine list including their flagship wine, Dante, a Cabernet Sauvignon-Sangiovese blend which they still produce.

Although welcoming guests to their storefront tasting room and introducing them to an ever growing list of Italian varietals and seeing them enjoy these wines was gratifying, the Belmonte family had dreams of creating something more. They wanted a space where visitors could experience not only wine, but also food and an atmosphere that spoke to their Italian heritage and hospitality.

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