2012 Dolcetto Santa Barbara County
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Steve Clifton is highly regarded for his ability to turn out a wide range of excellent and true-to-type Italian varietal and blended wines from the New World, and this year's set of releases more than keeps up the pace.Clifton described his approach at Palmina as "one foot in Italy and the other in California, and an attempt to bring Italian understatement and balance to the powerful fruit that grows here."Large oak casks, most of them neutral, play a huge part in his winemaking routine.In addition to not imparting overt oakiness to the wines, the big barrels allow for slower fermentation and aging, with attendant later bottling, which he says means that "more complexity can be built into the wines."