Valentini Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo 2024 DISCOUNTABLE and this is Oakville Cabernet

and this is Oakville Cabernet in its grandest dress

and sweet spices

apricot blossoms

took over the family vines in 2014 with no intention of continuing that arrangement

no Smaragd — just organic farming

Valentini Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo 2024 DISCOUNTABLE and this is Oakville CabernetThere 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,