Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo is a chillable cherry-colored red wine made from the same grape as Montepulciano d’Abruzzo. It’s great with summer food.
Author: David
Before he was a food and travel writer, David Lyon was a commercial fisherman, a line cook, a poet, and a sometimes teacher of writing and cooking.
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