Dolcetto wines are almost always deep in color, medium intense in terms of bouquet, with clearly dark fruit notes (blueberries). The taste is always fairly soft, with few acids and especially fruity without hard tannins. The best, most concentrated specimens – especially from the region around Alba – can safely age for a year or three, but only a few wines really improve with aging. The name dolcetto (small sweet) refers to the fairly low acidity of the wines, and therefore not to the sweet that the wines would have, quite the contrary. Dolcetto is admitted in no less than 15 appellations, where she plays or can play the first violin in 11 appellations.