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2016: A Very Good Year for Italy’s Many Rosatos

IAN D’AGATA I MAY 17, 2017

The pink wines of Provence in particular southeast France in general ignited a rosé feeding frenzy nearly a decade ago. This part of France has created a “gold standard” for what a rosé wine should look and taste like – for example, we’re conditioned to expect that it should be ultra-pale in color. But while the reputation of French rosés is deserved, the widespread perception that all pink wines should follow more or less in the same very pale, bone-dry style limits the wine-drinking public’s ability to appreciate, or even to discover, the many other styles of pink wines being made all around the world.

Many great Rosato bubblies are born from Franciacorta's hillsides such as these

The Abruzzo hillsides where Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo is made

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Not surprisingly given its penchant for creativity and individualism, Italy is the place to look for every shade of pink wine imaginable. From Lombardy's very pale Chiarettos to Abruzzo's downright red Cerasuolos, the cool 2016 vintage offers rosato wines for every taste.

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