Setting the table for some grilled spicy sausage and a green salad, the 2017 Bolgheri Rosso Adèo is 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot, and it offers plummy ripe fruit followed by smoke or scorched earth. The aromas show slightly burned characteristics that reflect the personality of this hot and dry vintage. They also point to some of the typical themes that appear in many wines made along the Tuscan Coast where strong sunlight and soft sea breezes shape the ideal conditions for easy ripeness. Production is an ample 55,000 bottles.

A dense and compact style, this red features black cherry, plum and underbrush flavors, matched to a thick burr of tannins. Rustic, with a lingering aftertaste of ripe fruit. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Best from 2021 through 2028. 5,500 cases made, 400 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Italy / Bolgheri Select to Add