Valentini Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo 2024 NO20230830 300 meters up the slopes

300 meters up the slopes of Mount Teide

drink with food

which makes this 1er Cru Monthelie a delightful curiosity - the same biodynamic farming and obsessive cellar work

Half the bunches go in whole

Verso is the new second wine of Chateau Haut-Batailley

Valentini Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo 2024 NO20230830 300 meters up the slopesThere are few wines in the world more cultishly admired than those of Valentini the Abruzzese estate that Francesco Paolo Valentini continues to run in the singular, uncompromising style of his late father Edoardo. The Cerasuolo is a rosato made from Montepulciano, and it is widely held to be one of the greatest ros wines on earth a wine of color, weight, and complexity that has nothing in common with the pale Provenal style. Tiny production,