Enjoyable Summer Wines from Italy

By Al Spoler,

Published July 3, 2019 at 10:06 AM EDT

More great offerings from Italy for easy-drinking wines for barbecue season. Click the links to purchase Cellar Notes recommendations at Kenilworth Wine & Spirits.

The Wines

Price key: $=less than $20 $$= $20-40 $$$=$40-60 $$$$=above $60

Quality key: * = decent wine ** = very good wine *** = superb wine ****= elite

VALUE = exceptional quality for the money

Illuminati "Riparosso" Montepulciano d'Abruzzo '16 ** $

Medium bodied, tannic and deep, with grilled meal it will bloom

Illuminati "Ilico" Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Riserva'15 **1/2 $ VALUE

Built to age, tight, firm, classy wine, with an affinity for grilled meat

Lunae Vermentino, Colli di Luni '17 *** $$

Stupendous Italian white, big, bold, sophisticated, impressive

All of these wines can be purchased at Kenilworth Wine and Spirits.

Click on the bottle for direct ordering and home delivery.

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Al Spoler

Al Spoler, well known to WYPR listeners as the wine-loving co-host of "Cellar Notes" has had a long-standing parallel interest in cooking as well. Al has said, the moment he started getting serious about Sunday night dinners was the same moment he started getting serious about wine. Over the years, he has benefited greatly from being a member of the Cork and Fork Society of Baltimore, a gentlemen's dining club that serves black tie meals cooked by the members themselves who are some of Baltimore's most accomplished amateur cooks.

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Hugh Sisson

As General Partner of Clipper City Brewing Company, L.P., Hugh J. Sisson is among Baltimore's premier authorities on craft brewing and a former manager of the state's first pub brewery, Sissons, located in Federal Hill. A fifth generation Baltimorean, Hugh has been involved in all aspects of craft brewing.

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