About Dolce Winery
Dolce Winery is named for the Italian word for 'sweet', a declaration of the estate's single purpose: producing California's finest late-harvest Botrytis-affected dessert wine in the Sauternes tradition. Gil Nickel, founder of Far Niente, established Dolce in 1989 as a dedicated late-harvest project in the style of Château d'Yquem, one wine, one purpose, one purpose pursued with obsessive commitment.
The name's simplicity is both linguistic and philosophical: dolce, sweet, the single Italian adjective that describes what the wine is. No elaboration needed, no secondary meaning required, this wine is sweet, it's Italian in its naming tradition, and it occupies a unique position in California wine as the country's most acclaimed late-harvest Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc.