From Light Chillable Bottles to Big Bold Ones, Here’s 43 Red Wines to Drink This Fall
Autumn is harvest season, and how a crop is grown matters both to your palate and to the planet. With that in mind, more and more wineries are focusing on sustainable and organic viticulture these days, yielding a cornucopia of excellent choices for conscientious consumers. My upcoming book, The World in a Wineglass (Scribner, November 2023), covers this in detail, but here are a few to look for now.
For still reds, there are more options than you may think, and the eleven below are a great addition to any warm-weather table. They’re also terrific year round.
2020 Kind of Wild Montepulciano d’Abruzzo
…It’s full of fruit, rustic in the best way, and made from 100% organic grapes. (Find it at kindofwildwines.com.)
Pair It with this!
Montepulciano d’Abruzzo
We stumbled upon this lovely and expressive Montepulciano hailing from the back of the boot, right off the Adriatic Sea. An exhilarating bouquet of ripe cherry mingles with dried red roses and spice notes. The palate shows juicy length which develops with a toasted oak finish. Lay back in your hammock and shoot the breeze and you’ll be saying “tutto bene” like a local.